Malvina
Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems
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Notes:
by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1967 by the author. From page 87 of the
collection "Inscriptions on a Ginger Jar," printed in the songbook
The Muse of Parker Street.
I could not understand you
Grown so strange and wild,
You who had been so wise and good
Now like a fractious child,
You who had been so temperate
Now in a kind of rage
Compounding all your folly
Upon a public stage.
I could not understand you,
The frenzy you were in,
Until the pins of anguish
Were sticking in my skin.
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