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Oh Natalia
Did you find it
The note I left under the rock outside your door

Oh Natalia,
Were you blinded
Were the holes stitched close on the mask that you have worn

Oh Natalia did you come to see
That all that came so effortlessly
Was in fact a torture you’d learned to take

Were the winter nights just too cold
In linen sheets stitched with gold
Did the guards outside your door keep you awake

Oh Natalia oh Natalia did you make it
Past the border posts
Did you make the train did it take you far from here
Did you leave a note so that they’d know
That you decided long ago
Natalia when did you disappear

Were you worried,
About the distance
Did you think that it would be too much to bear

Did they wear down
Your resistance
Did they change more than the colour of your hair

Oh Natalia did you realise
As you danced naked neath the lights
That only warmed your skin when they were on you

Did you understand eventually
That all they gave has not been free
Natalia I only hope you didn’t tell them that you knew

Oh Natalia oh Natalia did you make it past your masters guards
Did you cut the strings held by some puppeteer
With all the eyes upon your back
Did you fall somehow between the cracks
Natalia when did you disappear

Try forget all you have heard
That defection is a dirty word
Well I hope you got down on your knees and crawled deep into the dirt

Oh Natalia oh Natalia did you make it past the passport gates
Did they look in to your eyes and let you through
Do you ever stop to think of me
I hope you don’t I hope you’re free
Oh my love Natalia where are you

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from I Knew A Girl Once, released October 13, 2020

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