Blood Red Bird

I was not woken by the rooster
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 Nor by the crow's tough song
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 But the midnight cry of a blood red bird
 Brought this sleeplessness on
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 Threw open the window
 Moonlight on a black garden of thorns
 And the cool wind on my sweat
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 What cries home
 Where cries from
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 A blood red bird lies in the woods
 
 Weeping into dead leaves
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 With wing torn and jutting bone
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 What hand bent it to bust
 To be useless
 What hand I could have done it
 With two fingers
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 A blood red bird, a blood red bird
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 A blood red bird, a blood red bird
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 We can continually sink into each other
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 Just deep enough to rip out a bit more flesh
 When we move away
 
 A scarf of skin trailing out behind
 
 Like an arrow
 I was only passing through
 A blood red bird, a blood red bird
 A blood red bird, a blood red bird
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 A blood red bird, a blood red bird
 A blood red bird, a blood red bird