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How Beautiful Am I ?

from Sending Up Flares by Casey Neill & The Norway Rats

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To the barony born
To the gutter I’ve been
How beautiful am I?
Followed by the flashing lens
Of the camera eye
I haunted them all
They called me a muse
As Narcissus stares in the mere
Surrounded by Echoes
Who love his reflection
I took my own direction my darlings.. my dears

I acted the pantomime
I played the part
How beautiful am I?
Call it fate, call it a life in art
I soared and I sang high
The glimmer the glamour
The paint and the powder
How beautiful am I?
Incense and velvet, hypnotic vapors
transcendent lullabies
(How beautiful, How beautiful)

No waif, no gamine
a tatterdemalion
no a butterfly on a pin
bathing in twilight on the Thames
a girl dreaming on Battersea Bridge

I lost so many along the way
Somehow I survived
They are with me still
My beloved ghosts
Ever at my side
A fabulous beast
Running through the wood
How beautiful am I?
A fabulous beast
Charmed and untethered
I sing of the sea and the sky
(How Beautiful)

I travel by moonlight
Smoke and starlight
Carry my joys and my pains
Lay to rest the dissolute past
I dream down the old city lanes
I stand in the spotlight beneath the proscenium
A lone silhouette on the stage
I have shed my skin again and again
’til only the truth remains

Tell me what is more magical than the world?
this is an extraordinary life

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from Sending Up Flares, released September 29, 2023

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Casey Neill & The Norway Rats Portland, Oregon

CASEY NEILL & THE NORWAY RATS are a crack gang of musicians from Portland Oregon. Their sound combines high energy diesel fueled rave-ups and haunting ballads. Neill's weather beaten narratives celebrate miscreants, and explore the hidden corners of the American landscape. ... more

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