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Now we're free to wander in the night
Through every corner of the house
Your fingers remember every dark shade
You lie in your mother's bed
And learn that blue, after all, is only a color
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So easy to match
A soothing backdrop to her insomnia
A too heavy grave
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Mother wasn't well, she was in pain
The blue blanket was folded at her feet
You learned to be very quiet in those times
You'd keep your shoes set by the door
Or play doh by yourself for hours in the linen closet
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In the absence of a pile of blue towels
You played being dead
Covered with talcum powder
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You have grown, it's true, you have learned
We live in a human world together
We have all been lost in our mother's house
We have all crept down in the night
To put something sweet in our mouths
Sweet in our mouths
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You look out from the high windows now
And can see other houses as the lights green
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