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Estrogen

from Mermaid's Work by Fiona Howe

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ESTROGEN

Springtime (all those years locked inside you)
Floodtide (secrets spilling through the keyhole)
Ocean rushing through your body
Giving head
Flux and flow
All the hidden things you couldn’t know
Nothing anyone said

You came (hurt your power just to feel it)
Your flesh (like a bruise you press to heal it)
Mapping what was left behind
Afterglow
Dragged you deep
Ebbing at the dark shore of your mind
A burning star

It was
Something in the water, in the way you moved
Something in the ozone, can’t be nothing good
Something in your paintbox, in the tales you told
Something in your genome, now you’re growing cold

Roaring forties (such a beauty no one knew it)
Storm broken (fingering a thread of lightning)
Raindance on your desert beach
All your love
Out of reach
Breakers crashing at your painted feet
To set you free

You kick (mermaid pearls and glancing fishtail)
Too quick (keeling over on your mainsail)
Snatching at the rags of time
Take me now
As I am
Strung out in this need for rhyme and
Play to lose

It was
Something in the water, in the way you moved
Something in the ozone, can’t be nothing good
Something in your paintbox, in the tales you told
Something in your genome, now you’re growing cold

Red autumn (dry sands blowing paper thin skin)
Your sundown (planets halted when they took you in)
Everything your body didn’t need
Bolted green
Run to seed
All the cycles frozen as you bleed
Nothing foreseen

Your life (all you lost you won by dreaming)
Your time (riptide currency of feeling)
Trade winds blow your flame to black
All your love
Draws them back
Waiting in the wings to watch them fly
Your bitter pill

It was
Something in the water, in the way you moved
Something in the ozone, can’t be nothing good
Something in your paintbox, in the tales you told
Something in your genome, now you’re growing cold

Something
You drank it in
Such a good girl

© 2015 Fiona Howe

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from Mermaid's Work, released January 16, 2016
All songs written, arranged and produced by Fiona Howe.

Performed by Fiona Howe (vocals, piano).

Recorded, engineered and mixed by Stephen Reilly.
Remixed and mastered by Wes Maebe, GHQ Sonic Cuisine London.

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Fiona Howe London, UK

Fiona Howe is producer and composer of award-nominated feature films 'Desire', 'Delight' and 'Delirium'. The 'Delirium' soundtrack 'Requiem for the Living' was Nominated Best Original Score for a Drama Feature by Reel Music Awards 2017. Her début singer-songwriter album 'Mermaid’s' Work, 8 songs exploring the connection between the female psyche and the sea was first released in 2016. ... more

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