Merry-go-round

from The Scale - 124CD (2021) by Carla Diratz & the Archers of Sorrow

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Merry –go – round

the golden tooth appears through
a short laughter
like the quicksilver rolls
on a white sheet of paper
and as bullets whistle
at night on a ghost river
colored in a prematured amber
at night on a ghost river

no fate, no goal,
no direction, no path, no soul,
no heaven, no hell
but the same old new life instead
no fortune teller, no angel in sight
but two arms and a heart instead
the low, the sorrow,
the lines he's crossed
the sharp, the rotten, the raw,
the medium rare,
the strenght he's lost
his life went by as fast as the quicksilver
rolling at night on a ghost river
at night on a ghost river

the old and lonely man could not describe
how he felt, so he sang instead
"merry-go-round we go for the better and worse we go sings the bride on the chilling corpse,
sings the child on the wooden horse"

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from The Scale - 124CD (2021), released September 28, 2021

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