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Norma Jeanne

from Quiet House by Quiet House

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You were the one behind the camera
All those photographs I found
The stairs up to the attic
They would bend and bow with every creaking sound
The books unbound
The dusty ground

The stories that they told me
They were fragments, they were parchment half unfurled
They were epitaphs in whispered tones
Kept safe from all the swine and all the pearls
The black-haired girl
The twists and curls

I have never seen your grave
And I will never know the things that you believed
Norma Jeanne

Oh, was he gentle? Was he patient? Was he meek?
Did the animal inside him
Have to teach you how to turn the other cheek?
Norma Jeanne
Are you any part of me?

And oh, did it haunt you still
When you would go to sleep?
Did you learn to love the darkness
Of the one who laid these children at your feet?
Norma Jeanne

Were you broken? Were you bitter?
Are you present in the secrets that I keep?
Norma Jeanne

You are the face of all my questions
And the body of the man that I will be
Norma Jeanne
Do you see yourself in me?
Do I see myself in you?

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from Quiet House, released April 10, 2015

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