Adrienne Rich - Skeleton Key lyrics
[Adrienne Rich - Skeleton Key lyrics]
In the marina an allegro creaking
Boats on the tide each with it's own sway
Rise and fall acceptance and refusal
La Barqueta, My Pelican
Barometer in the body rising and falling
A small wound, swallow-shaped, on my wrist
Ripped by a thorn
Exacerbated by ash and salt
And this is how I came to be
Protector of the private
And enemy of the personal
Then I slept, and had a dream no more
No más
From now on, only
Reason’s drugged and dreamless sleep
Creeps down the rockface shadow cast
From an opposite crag exactly at that moment
You needed light on the trail
These are the shortening days
You forgot about bent on your own design
Cut me a skeleton key
To that other time, that city
Talk starting up, deals and poetry
Tense with elation, exiles
Walking old neighborhoods
Calm journeys of streetcars
Revived boldness of cats
Locked eyes of couples
Music playing full blast again
Exhuming the dead Their questions
Boats on the tide each with it's own sway
Rise and fall acceptance and refusal
La Barqueta, My Pelican
Barometer in the body rising and falling
A small wound, swallow-shaped, on my wrist
Ripped by a thorn
Exacerbated by ash and salt
And this is how I came to be
Protector of the private
And enemy of the personal
Then I slept, and had a dream no more
No más
From now on, only
Reason’s drugged and dreamless sleep
Creeps down the rockface shadow cast
From an opposite crag exactly at that moment
You needed light on the trail
These are the shortening days
You forgot about bent on your own design
Cut me a skeleton key
To that other time, that city
Talk starting up, deals and poetry
Tense with elation, exiles
Walking old neighborhoods
Calm journeys of streetcars
Revived boldness of cats
Locked eyes of couples
Music playing full blast again
Exhuming the dead Their questions