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Silent Siren

from Tropic of Tears EP by Rosa Bordallo

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I had taken it into my own two hands
Dug into it, fist-by-fist
Nothing can ever reach you when you have no hope
You're just the loneliest coal mine bird
So strung out and so out-of-tune

And the grip of death
It is so tight
And snug
And comforting
And so tempting
For the equilibrium you think it brings

Some people see the glow, you see the shadow
Some people see the light, you see the flame
Some people see the flame, you see the burning
And the oxygen it takes to keep it roaring
And the breath it takes to keep the miners digging

I wish I was like the soil
I wish I was like the dirt, so fertile
I wish I was like the soil
I wish I was like the ground
Eternal and profound

The strobing light without the siren
The warning flag without the breeze
The battering ram without the army
The clarion without the call

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from Tropic of Tears EP, released December 16, 2021

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Rosa Bordallo New York, New York

Rosa Bordallo f/k/a Manett is a singer-songwriter and musician based in Brooklyn. She is a CHamoru from the island of Guam in the Marianas, an archipelago in Micronesia. She came to New York at the age of 19. She was a member of the band cholo.

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