Name: Dang Emily
Duration: P00H01M03S
Description: (Our annual tribute song of Dear Emily, "Because I could not stop for Death he kindly stopped for me.")

Dang Emily

from Smelling Salts by Death and The Poetess

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(Our annual tribute song of Dear Emily, "Because I could not stop for Death he kindly stopped for me.")

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EMILY DICKINSON, "I measure every Grief I meet":

I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing, eyes –
I wonder if It weighs like Mine –
Or has an Easier size.

I wonder if They bore it long –
Or did it just begin –
I could not tell the Date of Mine –
It feels so old a pain –

I wonder if it hurts to live –
And if They have to try –
And whether – could They choose between –
It would not be – to die –

I note that Some – gone patient long –
At length, renew their smile –
An imitation of a Light
That has so little Oil –

I wonder if when Years have piled –
Some Thousands – on the Harm –
That hurt them early. . .

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from Smelling Salts, released March 1, 2021
Lyrics: Emily Dickinson
poets.org/poem/i-measure-every-grief-i-meet-561

Blake: synth-magic instruments, production.
jojo: vocals.

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Death and The Poetess Boston, Massachusetts

Blake Girndt (The I Want You, AxeMunkee, With Uncle Bones) and jojo Lazar (Burlesque Poetess, Army of Toys) bringing you crypt-folk tunes & spare bones for your spare change.

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