Patterns

Album: Patterns in Repeat (2024)
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  • Zena, you've squared your toes
    But your family nose, hangs around
    You're still a ballerina, everybody knows
    But your feet are on the ground
    But as the years go by and points comply
    With ever more relief
    Then patterns in repeat, can begin

    To have your children, your flock of birds
    Your branch among the wood
    You'll try to tell them, but you're lost for words
    'Cause it's so absurd, how good
    And as those years go by they'll look upon you kindly like a friend
    A pattern in repeat and never ends

    Pulled for meaning, I arched my back
    And then from the black you were born
    Forward leaning at first, abstract
    You soon contract into form
    And now the time leaps by and starts to fly
    And only then can I see
    That we're patterns in repeat
    And we'll always be Writer/s: Laura Marling
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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