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A song by my sister and i about our childhood:

Our house, our home was just a shell
where life became a living hell
where the child just smiled, but couldn’t feel
Because of the scars too deep to heal
And at night – we took turns dying
Just covered up the blackened eye
and told the world another lie
for what happened to us, you couldn't conceive
Truth be told you wouldn't believe
I’m running, I’m running, down the street
in my freezing bare feet
I know I’ll have to go back and get beat

we took turns dying

I’m praying, I’m praying, that lightning won’t strike
That I won’t be dead before morning light
Knowing that there will be no peace this night
We took turns dying

Your hands were supposed to embrace me
hold me and make me feel loved and free
But you beat me until I was begging on the floor
Wondering what I was apologizing for 
And at night – we took turns dying
Behind this tear soaked teddy bear
there shone a childish hope
that you declare your love one day
those three magic words you never did say 
And at night – we took turns dying

I lie now; I lie, by my teddy bear and cry
that she is impossible to satisfy.
I wish I would die – NO WAIT! - I wish I could fly
we took turns dying.
Daddy will make it, daddy will see
lets run away and be happy us three
now we've escaped and we’re kinda free
But Still – we take turns dying


We Took Turns Dying  (song)

A Sensation Of Animation

This piece is for string and Woodwind, and made using mostly Spitfire Woodwinds and CSS.  I think of it as a rhapsody for orchestra with a slightly eastern ring to it,  and it ends accelerando in the manner of a gallop

Lumière (Composed for Soundtree Music)

Mitchell Tanner Composer