From Below (bonus)

from Fraying Threads by Sommer Harris

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Written June 2015. Inspired by a book called "The will to life" that follows the stories of disenfranchised individuals who were severely impacted by the AIDS epidemic in Brazil.

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You say you've got a right
to chase after the light
An unprojected future
sometimes the face says something and
the eyes say what it never can
Soraia-- I never knew her

The will to life is brightly burning
Swim against the undertow
Can't you feel the country turning
From below

And too much medicine will kill
her sanity, those wild pills
she going crazy
last night she dreams her family was there
but they wouldn't let her sleep
it's growing hazy

The will to life is brightly burning
Swim against the undertow
Can't you feel the country turning
From below

Behind her eyelids long ago
back in the day when she could know where she was
she was a beauty
now she forgets the room she's in
her body-- shamed with sin
and for a decade she has not been seen

It's only luck that it should be
she is her and I am me
we are borne from the same
it's taken all this time to see,
the poor don't show up on TV
So fuckin lame

The will to life is brightly burning
Swim against the undertow
Can't you feel the country turning
From below?

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from Fraying Threads, released August 3, 2015

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