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Artist: Marika Hackman
Canonical path: /marika-hackman/next-year
Related lyric paths: 6
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Next Year
Read Next Year lyrics by Marika Hackman on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Next Year
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Oh, father time
Grow me, change me
Age and shed the infant skin that was mine
Did you hear the wind
Howling, growling? She knows something
She is older than I
Progress is slow on this heart that I grow
I'll love a lot next year
Beat to the drum
Constant motion, vessels pulsing
Every second we die
Hands to the sun
Burning, breathing, glowing, healing
Sustenance of the sky
Wholemeal and coal are better for the soul
But I believe in blood and lust
Oh, father time
Rock me gently, I'm not ready
Can't we stay for a while?
And listen in to the wind
Melody of melancholy
She's a lullaby
But send me to sleep and my mother
She will weep
Alma mater I've not met
Here's to the womb and the human catacomb
I am not a child quite yet
No, I am not a child quite yet
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Marika Hackman performs "Next Year", and this lyric page sits inside the Marika Hackman catalog on LyroVerse.
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