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Self​-​Protection after Madeleine L'Engle

from Senza Amanti by Meaner Pencil

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Madeleine L'Engle was one of my favorite children's fiction writers and one of my imaginary parents while I was growing up. Self sacrifice is a big theme in her work. I wanted to respond with a loving, grown up critique praising spiritually enlightened self protection.

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Your heartbeat's mine
so I'm bleeding all the time
then you stop on a dime
you say everything's just fine
but your heartbreak's mine
so I'm bleeding all the time
then you stop on a dime
you say everything's just fine

arguing in a car outside the grocery store
arguing near a sculpture in a field
arguing in a car outside the grocery store
til you've almost convinced me that what I'm seeing
isn't real

your heartbeat's mine
so I'm bleeding all the time
when you stop on a dime
you say everything's just fine
but your heart breaks mine
so I'm bleeding all the time
when you stop on a dime
you say everything's just fine

(oh, I think, this beautiful boy wants to break me
sees my bright face wants to hold me and shake me
then when I'm broken he'll gently forsake me
oh say what you will, but I can't let him take me)

All my brightness, all my sightness
all my rightness, all my fightness
all my brightness all my sightness
all my rightness, all my fightness

Your heart beats mine
so I'm bleeding all the time
then you stop on a dime
and you say everything's just fine.

credits

from Senza Amanti, released February 3, 2014
Words and music by Meaner Pencil (Lenna Pierce). Recording Tech/album midwife: Steve Nelson. Shaina Allison: producer. Album Art by Leigh McLinden. Blue Dragon Moon records.

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Meaner Pencil New York

Meaner Pencil is a singing cellist whose style is influenced by blues, post-punk, and romantic opera. She uses her songs to glorify everyday experiences and acts of kindness, but is also willing to face the darkness. She is often heard singing in the New York subway system late at night. Her newest album Senza Amanti, was named WFMU's new album of the day on March 23rd 2014 ... more

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