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Girl Looking Out the Window

from Lost In Translation by Soy La Vid

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Based on the work of the same title by Munch, the song deals with themes of sexual abuse and the dichotomy of light and darkness.

lyrics

Girl Looking Out the Window
No I’m not afraid of the dark
But of what the darkness conceals
It could be anything at all
Or nothing… and both prospects fill me up with fear

(chorus)
Did you see that light flick on?
Do you think they see me here?
Can they see the shape I’m in?
And can they see my scars?
My sickness and my sin?
Can they see my shame?
Is it as blatant as I think it is?
Cause I wear it plainly on my skin.

And yet I’m afraid of the light
Or at least what light would reveal
So I steal behind the curtain and wait
And welcome in a kind of gray

(Chorus)

So here I stand
Between death and life
Afraid of them both I seize here
Paralyzed by verifiable fear
Can’t let the light expose me
Can’t let the darkness overgrow me
I can’t…. move an… inch.

I might be safe in this very place and no other
I can see the light but it can’t touch me
Turn my back to the black and it won’t touch me
Like all the ones before who won’t touch me
No not after they know, no they won’t touch me
I shudder at the thought – he won’t touch me
Flood of memory rush Oh God! He won’t touch me
See his hands see his hands Oh God! He won’t touch me
Screaming Screaming Screaming Don’t touch me no no no no no

Pry open my eyes and gone are the thoughts
All I take in is a world ignorant and clean
So I stay here in between
The dark and the light and I look out on what might have been

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from Lost In Translation, released March 6, 2012

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Soy La Vid Indianapolis, Indiana

Soy La Vid is the musical whimsy of Mark Abdon. Graduated from DePauw U. and now hailing Indianapolis, IN - current interests include Cinnamon Toast Crunch, tall mountains, Jesus, living in the 'hood, and his wife Laura.

Musical parents include the unlikely matrimony of such persons as Iron & Wine, Sufjan Stevens, Coldplay, The National, George Winston, Sarah McLachlan, Hammock, and yes... Enya
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