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I've watched her from the river banks

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I knew her when she danced with dreams

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White doves were there to dress her hair

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And so was Madelaine

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At night the people's faces danced

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Like pearls colliding on the breast

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Of fat Marie whose thunder laugh

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Was just a thread from crying



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Her sailors stained her cobblestones

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With wine and piss and death desire

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And sometimes blood for Madelaine

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Whose laughter was the night

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Her girls would lift their dresses high

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and breathe the stars and kiss the sky

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She'd smother them with whispers then

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Embrace them with her sighs



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Before the bottle dulled my eyes

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And made me so I couldn't stand

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I'd overact and play the clown

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When Madelaine would cry



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And now I watch from riverbanks

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I watch it weave it's memories

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White doves turned gray and flew away

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And so did Madelaine