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Paul Simon sings he’s soft in the middle
I’m soft in the middle and I’m wasting my breath
Anna Bertha saw her bones in her hand
and cried out, I have seen my death!
Anna Bertha, I have seen my death too
Waves of the working days grinding me into sand
Anna Bertha, I have seen my death too,
skeleton hiding inside my warm soft hand
in my hand

Chorus:
When she touched the feathers of the ghost-white owl
and her fingers sank right in
Or the ripe persimmon, red as rust,
wet honey under the skin
Your hand in mine with your flesh so fine,
cold bones, warm hand, gold rings;
Soft things, soft things

Black frame around his portrait like the frame that runs
Around the X-ray or the computer screen
I keep forgetting that Eric’s gone
but he still shows up sometimes, living, in my dreams
Sometimes you feel like nothing at all
So soft when I take your hand in mine
And then I feel like nothing at all
Snow and static on the inside
On the inside

Glory days of wine and bruises
All the things that he refuses
Floating world that occupies my time
I wanted to grow up wise and wild
But I’ve been old since I was a child
Tried to fly and melt and fall
But I float down like feathers, like nothing at all
Nothing at all

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from Names of Things and What They Do, released November 6, 2015

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