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[APPLAUSE]

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"Break me and I'll sing."

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Break me and I'll sing.

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My voice like marrow.

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A blood yolk spilled
upon the counter.

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You can't stop this song.

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More hands than yours have
closed around my throat.

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You may crack me.

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You have cracked me.

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I'm frightened,

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But so what?

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I'll testify.

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Witness, if you can.

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Listen.

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I slurped the frog
leg soup gone bad.

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Held a brass spoon like
a barrel to my mouth.

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I could tell you what
you want to hear,

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But I'd be broken just the same.

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So why not sing?

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I'm singing now.

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Louder this time,

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And in the round.

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We are a wounding
of red plumed birds.

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Every voice, a bloody
feather in the bone crown.