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Star Shaped

from Roll as a Hexagon by Helen Bell

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2015

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I never meant that I wanted to leave you
Only that I was going there
These skylines are etched all over my eyes
I need to rinse them in cool blue air
We say all the things round the edges of questions
Whose answers we'd rather not know
Do you hear me not-saying 'I'll miss you'
As loudly as you are not-saying 'Don't go'?

I am from one thousand nights in the yellow glow
Ringing with loves and papered with laughter
Starlight and pavements to carry me home
Into their one thousand mornings after
But I am from under the arc of the curlew
And shouting at mountains that call a refrain
And silence that stands like a pool in the darkness
And pine forests taking the edge off the rain

I want to turn star-shaped and large
And fold up all kinds of you into my arms
Roll as a hexagon down to the beach
Float as a coracle over the sea
And while I'm away, hold you close and invisible
Like the bones of a song
Dismantling notions of home being nowhere
But quietly gone

There are no questions or promises
Our feet are our own, and the paths that we walk
Each inscribe a peculiar curve
I keep an ember, quietly
Inside a small jar of what might be
A glow that will show when our rangy trajectories
Spiral around to converge



I am from ships that arrive in the morning
Loneliness lulled by the sound of the tracks
And missing my stop where I don't speak the language
Feeling the twinges of want-to-go-back
And I am from back when I didn't quite know you
When I was all edges and trying too hard
And meeting by chance when I needed some kindness
And all of this starting to catch me off-guard

I want to turn star-shaped and large
And fold up all kinds of you into my arms
Roll as a hexagon down to the beach
Float as a coracle over the sea
And while I'm away, hold you close and invisible
Like the bones of a song
Dismantling notions of home being nowhere
But quietly gone

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from Roll as a Hexagon, released July 7, 2018
Helen Bell – vocal, electric pianos, violin, viola, bass guitar

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Helen Bell UK

Prog/folk/pop singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist specialising in viola and keyboard instruments.

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