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Vincenzo Part I

from Hobgoblin's Hat by Allysen Callery

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6.Vincenzo Part I

Vincenzo come to me
without your necktie
do you think you’re fooling
anyone (that is not your real name)
when you were a baby they stole
your name they held it shining in the light
deciding it too beautiful too bright
they wrapped it tight in rushes & reeds
pushed it in dark waters

Somewhere a prince plays with your name
he doesn’t know you & will never know you
like I do, I hardly know you at all

Once in a million years we fall
once in a million years too late
too late I fall
& I’d fall again

So I watch you through the glass as Tantalus
& you are all the world to me
all the wine the bread the flesh & sweet
sweet these things I’ve never tasted

& I’d say Oh my nameless one
tragedy is beautiful under the stars
under your breath whisper to me
so she can’t hear you

Vincenzo come to me without your necktie
I’ll come to you in shadow
across all stars & roses come to you
across a million years

& in each life I’ll love you without trying
simple as breathing long to kiss you
until I was dead
it’s there in that fleeting instance between
the darkness and the light
I will learn your name then forget
everything

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from Hobgoblin's Hat, released February 14, 2010

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Allysen Callery Rhode Island

" Her lilting voice and heartfelt lyrics are eerily close to the work of the late British songstress Sandy Denny, the highest compliment I could hand down to this brilliant artist."- Paste Magazine

Allysen Callery is a self-taught folk artist from Bristol, Rhode Island. Growing up she was heavily influenced by her parent's British Isles Folk Revival records of the late 60′s early 70′s .
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