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lyrics

NIGHTINGALE (A Nightingale)

I have heard you sigh with love and grief --
A willowisp, your breath is wandering palely in the eaves.

I have seen his heart weighed down with weeds,
With strangled love for her who holds the cards and all the keys.

He is not for you, it’s not to be. He isn’t free.
The path to him is fraught, he isn’t free.

oooooo

Tangled is the web we tend to weave,
The lovely, gilded, longing lies we make ourselves believe.

He’d love you well if only he were free; he isn’t free.
The path is clogged with thorns, it’s not to be.
His heart’s not free.

credits

from The Ballad of Tam Lin, released July 3, 2020
Music and lyrics by Molly Pinto Madigan

Jenee Halstead: Voice
Molly Pinto Madigan: Guitar
Eva Walsh: Violin
Lyle Brewer: Guitar
Julian Loida: Percussion
James Heazlewood Dale: Bass

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Molly Pinto Madigan Salem, Massachusetts

Singer. Songstress. Poet. Novelist. Lover of roses, ballads, ballroom dancing, and beaches, where she spends her time indulging her mermaid nature.

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