Name: Ode to an Empress
Duration: P00H03M03S
Description: Ode to an Empress is an ode to my biggest idol Joni Mitchell, whose poetry has made a huge impression on my artistry. It is not just an ode to her as a woman, but also an ode to her artistry.

Ode to an Empress

from Thoughts on a Dream by Lucy Wroe

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Ode to an Empress is an ode to my biggest idol Joni Mitchell, whose poetry has made a huge impression on my artistry. It is not just an ode to her as a woman, but also an ode to her artistry.

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Ready to know what happiness is like for lovers.
Moments ago, it was inscribed, described by all as some cloud of dreams.
On a rowboat in the darkness, with a sweet smoke in your eyes,
Like a freefall with no harness falling on into the night
For all of time.

She hides my sorrows in her perfume, in her fortune.
That she made by selling her soul for you, but I don't assume,
That her love is all for me.

But we are one in my eyes, though she is far away, I beg her to stay.
A beauty untold, and a mystery for all who try to know.
She's unarming and a powerful beam of light,
On the surface, just another girl of fight or flight,
And on she will go.

She hides my sorrows in her perfume, in her fortune.
That she made by selling her soul for you, but I don't assume
That her love is all for me.

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from Thoughts on a Dream, released July 3, 2020
Music and Lyrics: Lucy Wroe
Production: Tom Berry
Mastering: Philip Marsden

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