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When The Train Arrives

from Heavy Heart by Girl Blue

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I’m all awash with bathtub tears
I’m staring up at subway tiles
I think I’ll close my eyes down here
Just wake me when the train arrives

My hair is algae; skin is sand
I tell myself one hundred lies
My legs become a mermaid tail
Just wake me when the train arrives.

You see, every night’s fourth of July
So I’m numb to every fire-lit sky
I lose myself in violet poems
I lose the names of those I know

So what’s my love when I’m alone
And time’s a rolling mirror ball
And no one’s picking up the phone
Because no one ever placed a call?

It ain’t no plugged in hair blow-dryer
It’s not a TV suicide
No gulp or two of bubble bath
No Kool-aid full of cyanide

It’s a rope gone red from bloody hands
The mud from heels that dig in dirt
The love that loving takes from you
The sick impatience of the hurt

And it’s not wanting to die, but live
It’s swallowing your pride for thirst
It’s a doomed thought that your bathtub
Isn’t deep enough to drown in….

Oh, I need a friend
I need a hand
I lock myself out of my mind
I’m stuck beneath this mermaid sand
Please wake me when the train arrives.

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from Heavy Heart, released December 15, 2021

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Girl Blue Troy, New York

Girl Blue is the project of solo artist Arielle O’Keefe. Compared often to the likes of Laura Marling, Jeff Buckley, and Alanis Morissette, she is a powerhouse vocalist with the rare ability to write songs that both catch the ear and touch the heart. She plays out regularly around the country and records music in upstate NY with Just Pretend Records. ... more

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