Name: Broken
Duration: P00H03M27S
Description: We have all experienced these moments, where it feels like what has been broken can never heal.

Broken

by A Paper Muse

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We have all experienced these moments, where it feels like what has been broken can never heal.

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Frozen in a moment, transfixed in mid-fall
Fingers slipped, lost our grip, clumsy in a sprawl
Just before the heartbreak, dice already thrown
Too late to change, it’s out of range, chances all been blown

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Some things can’t be fixed.
They’re not that kind of broken.
They can’t be glued together
Look like they did before.

I wish we were ceramic, that I possessed the glue
Kintsugi works, the gold’s a perk, it makes the bowl anew
But that’s no good for people, we don’t break in neat parts
The waves of pain, they still remain, Glue can’t uncrush a heart

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Bridge:
Love is just too fragile, keep it safe at any cost
If you stumble and you drop it, it shatters and it’s lost
Like a finely crafted chalice or a goblet silver glazed
Hold it like a treasure if you wish to be unscathed

Love don’t live in femurs, or marrow of the bones
It doesn’t knit when broke or split, xrays can’t be shown
A cast can’t hold together, compressing fractured souls
There is no pill to ever fill this kind of empty hole

Chorus

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released February 22, 2021
Music Composed and Arranged by Jannine Taylor
Lyrics, Vocals, Additional Arrangement: Drew Nicholson

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A Paper Muse Aurora, Illinois

I'm a poet, a singer/songwriter (more on the writer than the singer), and I have a podcast that enables people to tell stories about people. I'm also part of an Irish music band Bardic Storm.
Father, Husband, and failed guitar player. ... more

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