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Her Habit Was Strong (live @ DMP)

from Bruce Piephoff Live at the dotmatrix project by Bruce Piephoff

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I wrote this song while living in Durham, NC in the dead of winter while reading Anais Nin

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Her habit was strong
The habit of freedom and change
Living with wings, flying high
Above the land of stone

She was more fire than light
A trapeze artist piquant
A tigress in the night
A dancer, a trap of delight

She could act out any role
Charm the hobo or the prince
She could heighten and sustain
Her value with resistance

Her skin sea shell white
Her eyes of violet
Her dresses of red velvet
Enslaved the poets

She was prodded by sailors
With slow ritual and incense
With opium and cocaine
They offered chains at her expense

But her habit was too strong
The habit of freedom and change
Living with wings, flying high
Above the land of stone

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from Bruce Piephoff Live at the dotmatrix project, released August 26, 2009
Written by Bruce Piephoff

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