Oh, Sadie Rose, my daughter left unsaid Your father cradles you in his clouded head Your mother collapses in the fall Selling paintings of a Friday set to crawl Invisible chandeliers hang like halos over you, my child We sang and gathered to watch your static dance So lover, Sadie's mother, provide a heart's shelter to birth her bones She's lovely when she's asleep, as she'll always be, 'til she finds a home I'll move back to London and spend my life choking moons As you grow up and grow old Oh, Sadie Rose, climb back into your broken sea Polyphonic waves of praise crash on like anarchy They say you're Marie Antoinette reincarnate We worked so hard to collaborate your name And now it's buried under phenominal grey waves Pout your lips; sit, hands on knees, conduct yourself in the manner of a lady We sang and gathered to watch your static dance So lover, Sadie's mother, provide a heart's shelter to birth her bones She's lovely when she's asleep, as she'll always be, 'til she finds a home I'll move back to London and spend my life choking moons As you grow up and grow old Hearts are strung up and gagged I wish mom could see us both now This final note hits the navel of the maroon beast Our daughter's so charming, so proud You can't rewrite the lines of earthquake tremors Like guitars that try to cry out and speak Our lovely Sadie Rose is now a pile of spotted bones She'll forever reside within me
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