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Moskvin's Maidens

from Ill​-​Defined Lines by Holly McGarry

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A somewhat true story that includes Russian mummies

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When I was just a boy
I knelt down beside your coffin
And when I saw your face,
Fair and pale I kissed your cheek

Anatoly Moskvin
Wandering the graveyards
Searching for a love he just can’t find

Your lovely bones
Lying there in the grave
Sang out my name,
“wont you come save me?”

he dressed them all in bright
colors round home,
a grim tableau of what once were
real living girls

I never could resist the stories
down below the tombstones
so don’t fret my dear
I’ll dress you up in colors red and gold

Tell me everything,
You life, your loves, your losses
Don’t want to be alone anymore

29 fair maids could never make up
for the one he lost

people they just don’t understand
that you were more
than just china dolls

when they finally capture him
a bag of bones across his back
among the dark and faded epitaphs

29 dead maids would never
make up for the life he lost
to the graves

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from Ill​-​Defined Lines, released July 10, 2012

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Holly McGarry Boston, Massachusetts

Imagine a young folk artist with the depth of Nina Simone. Transport the storytelling talent of Dylan to a North Idaho town. Holly presents the dichotomy of a calm exterior with unbounded passion for music, a newly-minted adult with a lifetime of experiences able to lace her lyrics with profound insights, sharing her love, loss, and life through a simple six strings. ... more

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