Lilja's Lament

[00:14.83] Strolling under harbor lights
[00:18.28] Lilja reads a line
[00:22.45] Poor Tatiana
[00:29.55] In another library
[00:33.27] Rochester arrives
[00:37.72] Oh lord, he's half-blind
[00:44.41] Lancelot and Guinevere
[00:47.71] Came nowhere near the pier
[00:53.04] No love this year
[00:59.06] Marian called Robin Hood
[01:02.32] To save her from the sea
[01:07.52] But words are cheap
[01:13.53] Stories had been spun
[01:16.71] A sea of metaphors were done
[01:20.97] And Lilja heard but wonder's thunder
[01:28.22] All the books she read
[01:31.53] Kept her in bed and hurt her head
[01:35.63] Her tragic flaw was not a blunder
[01:58.38] Percival got drunk
[02:01.65] And tossed his cup into the snow
[02:05.29] Where'd the grail go?
[02:12.14] Catherine found her Heathcliff
[02:15.99] But the Brontes died alone
[02:20.17] Air gets so cold
[02:27.58] Wind revives the balladeers
[02:30.48] Sentenced to their words
[02:34.60] Fog means return
[02:41.73] For them bards and troubadours
[02:45.17] Sentences are worlds
[02:49.76] We long but don't learn
[02:56.56] Stories had been spun
[02:59.21] A sea of metaphors were done
[03:03.54] And Lilja heard but wonder's thunder
[03:11.12] All the books she read
[03:13.97] Kept her in bed and hurt her head
[03:18.31] Her tragic flaw was not a blunder
[03:26.45] Teeter totter by the harbor
[03:33.68] Lilja looked up, saw a starfish
[03:40.63] Holding her hand was Ophelia
[03:49.09] Smith, Elliot, Plath, Sylvia
[03:55.65] Stories had been spun
[03:59.46] A sea of metaphors were done
[04:02.91] But Lilja lived her blunder thunder
[04:09.98] All the books she read
[04:12.77] Put her to rest on a seabed
[04:17.59] Her tragic flaw still makes me wonder
[04:24.91] Stories had been spun
[04:27.40] A sea of metaphors were done
[04:31.72] But Lilja lived her blunder thunder
[04:38.49] All the books she read
[04:44.26] Put her to rest on a seabed
[04:47.32] Her tragic flaw still makes me wonder
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