What we have is myth, but that doesn't make it any less true
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Iseult Speaks for Mezzo-Soprano and Large Ensemble
Song Cycle by Jessica Rudman
1. Iseult speaks
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A shoulder here, ankle there
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Above the white-caps, my head
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Sometimes I wonder if you even realize what you are
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The future, with its troublesome noise
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This is what I know about choice
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Your wife might be the one with the white hands, but my candied fists
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The birds cannot compete with my longing
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What kind of woman am I to submit to this empty breath
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I blame you for absolutely ev'rything
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Eventually, I donned the hair shirt myself
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13. Iseult steels (herself)
If only this would end the way they say it will
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