| Valerie went up in the hills
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| Through the wilderness
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| She was born in and knew so well.
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| She carried her letters there,
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| Away from her mother’s care.
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| Turned them from fire to ash, then air,
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| Until the silence became a shrill.
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| Hazy, mazy, were the valleys of her mind.
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| All the haze she had
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| could not cure the love inside.
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| Of her family sins i cannot tell.
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| She picked my fingers and cast a spell,
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| Leaving me flipping coins down the well.
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| Until the silence became a shrill.
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| With death she knew, separation was their fate.
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| To stay with them, she must return from the pearly gates.
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| So she laid a daisy dagger down,
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| Under the bed, wrapped in fur,
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| Calling for the crows to stir,
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| Until the silence became a shrill.
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| Valerie went up in the hills
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| Through the wilderness
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| She was born in and knew so well.
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| She carried her parents there,
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| Away from the vulture’s care.
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| Turned them from fire to ash, then air,
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| Thats when the silence began to kill.
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| Thats when the silence began to kill.
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| Thats when the silence began to kill.
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| Thats when the silence began to… |