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I Grew Up In A Room, Small As A Penny ( The Returning)

from Oracles by Ana Silvera

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lyrics

I grew up in a room, small as a penny
I was certain of love but we didn’t have money
At the end of the garden, a lawn spread with honey
I was soothed by the pines, it was endlessly sunny

In that cool dark room, I lined up my soldiers
And marched them to lands of ochre and cobalt,
And read about sailors who dreamed about Jenny
And Jenny had L-M-N-O pearls by the many

I was certain of love but we didn’t have money
Certain of love and we didn’t want for any

I grew up in a house that was neat as a button
With the shiniest bell and a lap made for sitting
And a door well hidden by the tall green reeds
That made ablutions with the dew nightly

We went stealing about when the walls were asleep
We were watched by the china on the mantelpiece
There’s a jewel of devotion so high in the eaves
I still hear it humming, oh humming on the breeze

I saw spring uncombing her hair by the quays
Had a hundred score sailor men weak at the knees
She turned and she scattered the dandelion seeds
Made time’s pulse quicken and strain at the seams

I wrote: I and my child and my mother long dead
Her eyes like a haunting appear on this head
There are ghosts who wait in the chambers of breath

I sang this song as I sat by the bed
I sang this song as I sat by the bed

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from Oracles, released July 6, 2018

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Ana Silvera London, UK

'Stunning...magical storytelling' -The Guardian

Ana Silvera is a London-born singer- songwriter and composer whose folk and bluegrass-tinged tunes are lyrical, intimate and emotive, works of ‘lavish, vivid imagination’ (Metro). ... more

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