Keep Me

She told me her name was Madonna McInnis
The prodigal daughter of Mineral Street
Her mother a nun and her father in prison
His crime an impossible secret to keep

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She said Keep me away from the sunlight
Keep me away from the crowds
Keep me awake until midnight
And then keep me from turning around

She said she'd a son that she lost in the forest
A daughter she'd sold for the money to leave
She sang for a month in a Protestant chorus
But quit when the junipers started to bleed

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Her home was the woods and her husband a bottle
Her hair was the shade of a dying crow's eyes
Her vision was blurred and her memory mottled
With dreams that her parents had taught her to fly

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She told me cried every day of her life
For the victims she'd made and the victim she'd been
She walked every mile on the edge of a knife
For the family she'd had and the man she had wed

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