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PEDESTAL (bonus track)

from ATOMIA by Velvet Darling

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1.

listen,

i understand that you are cold
and that it is dark now where you stand
like plants, we all need sunlight
to teach us how to grow
and help us to be strong

but i did not plant your seed there with these broken, burning hands
and i do not choose the angle at which my shadow is cast

2.

listen,

i was still covered in placenta
when they locked me in this golden cage

fast at work,
they did not care how calloused their hands got-
rough rope fed through the pulley and sewed into the heavy haze of someone else’s dreams

my prison ascended so close to the sun, the bars began to sear
and as i grew, my skin began to cook and melt around them

3.

listen,

from all the way up there
nobody can hear you scream

4.

listen,

i promise you-
if i could leave this pedestal and share the warmth that for me is burning and bubbling,
i would do it in a heartbeat

but the fall would kill me

5.

listen,

there are two ways to rob someone of their humanity-

to idolize them
and to ignore them

perhaps we share the same emptiness that way

(perhaps you despise me more for it)

6.

listen,

don’t you dare look at me like that

7.

listen,

if you want some sunlight,

step out of the goddamn shade
pick a garden i have never touched
choose a world that never made sacrifice to the glimmer-god of my cage bars

8.

listen,

i won’t apologize because i cannot
my mouth is charred and my lips are smoke, now

my voice is rotting from announcing the decay

9.

listen,

i didn’t ask for this

10.

listen,

do you hear that?


(neither do i)

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from ATOMIA, released November 24, 2016

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Velvet Darling Montreal, Québec

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Velvet Darling is a Montreal, QC based time-travelling female singer/songwriter. Fascinated with capturing the gory glory of human nature, she dreams up symphonies and spreads the cosmic darkness through music, poetry & neon glamour.

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