Penelope Halfpenny

Album: The Boy Named If (2022)
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  • Penelope Halfpenny sat on the desk
    Then stretched and grinned
    She cracked her spine
    And so we sinned
    While Ruth in red and Beckett in blue
    Into the confessional flew
    And in that box, unlocked their dreams
    While lovers ran hands on nylon

    Penelope, Penelope, Penelope Halfpenny

    Penelope Halfpenny
    Asked a great deal
    Turned on her heel
    Through her squandered ambitions while marking time
    Taught lessons to all adjacent to crime
    From her days reporting to the Scotland Yard blotter
    Who got who and who got what
    But none of that mattered, not one jot
    To Penelope, Penelope, Penelope, Penelope Halfpenny

    Ruth in red tumbled from her bed although, I know
    Beckett in blue, hung there bleeding from the springs below
    Penelope, Penelope

    Penelope she came and went
    We assumed that all her savings were spent
    Her style of drama and her shape of face
    Disappeared with the dot of a decimal place
    While Beckett in blue and Ruth in red
    Might for all I know be dead
    And to the church door both were driven
    Or could be somewhere, happily living
    Just in time to be forgiven
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