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Half​-​Right

from Beneath the Cauldron (2021) by Blake Starkey

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Oh Magdalene, a girl in slippered feet
Goes prowling through the night
From street to street
Through the long night
Until she gets a break
This half clad girl walks
On these tired feet
In placid moonlight
Wrapped in suitors arms
Until the day’s light
Working her sweet charms
In broad daylight
Holed up in her room
With a cigarette and her cheap perfume

Green mint breath and supple breasts
Smooth pony thighs
She glows divine

Oh Magdalene
She’s fallen from heaven
She dwells alone in a rundown motel
Oh Magdalene
A harlot from heaven
Her broken wings have gone unnoticed
There beneath the red lights
She’s dead inside, it’s not half right
It’s not half right
It’s not half right

Oh Magdalene, she’s barely ripe eighteen
She came to LA to fulfill the dreams
With crystal vision to land on the scene
She sells her body like some pack wrapped meat
She’s but a stranger in the strangest place
Mascara tears run down her slender face
Much like a candle that burns all too bright
She carries on like a blackbird in flight

Twilight skies, the angels cry
Electric nights, it’s not half right

Oh Magdalene
She’s fallen from heaven
She dwells alone in a rundown motel
Oh Magdalene
A harlot from heaven
Her broken wings have gone unnoticed
There beneath the red lights
She’s dead inside, it’s not half right
It’s not half right
It’s not half right

A harlot from heaven
A wicked tongue
A harlot from heaven
She'll have you sprung
A harlot from heaven
Down to the bone
A harlot from heaven
She’s all alone

A harlot from heaven
A wicked tongue
A harlot from heaven
She'll have you sprung
A harlot from heaven
Down to the bone
A harlot from heaven
She’s all alone

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from Beneath the Cauldron (2021), released January 11, 2021

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Los Angeles based musician, producer and visual and performing artist.

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