Happiness

Song Cycle by Freya Waley-Cohen (b. 1989)

1. You envied the stars their height
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The day folded
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2. Still Light
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You picture your mother like a tree
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3. Happiness
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Yesterday it appeared to me in the form of two purple
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4. An Avoidance
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I could go around all evening dropping slices of lime
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5. Ease
 (Sung text)

Subtitle: (Or a poem about how things are now’)

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Lined coat, warm cap, felt slippers
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