Page 17 of Lyrics of Her

Delaney clears his throat. “Can we have a copy of Miss Thomas’s lyrics please?” he asks her lawyer, and she immediately slides a folder across the desk toward him, tapping her highly polished fingernail on the tab she wants us to open.

Delaney opens the folder and moves it so that it’s sitting on the table between us, that way we can both read over the page at the same time.

I start from the very beginning, reading over the first verse, and I can feel Brinley’s eyes on me the entire time I’ve got my eyes leveled on the page in front of me.

Destiny

When sunlight fades and the streets turn to gold

And the city I know is no longer my home

Glimpses of blue and then day turns to night

And all I can hear are the sounds of sheer fright

I fall to the ground, the floor of contempt

I feel the blame closing in on me

Just wait a bit longer

Something I need is coming my way

But when, when will the blue go away

I guess I thought we would always stay the same

But I’m terrified, in my heart, and in my mind

It’s not a game.

I won’t have to wonder, I’ll always know

When you took it away from me I couldn’t explain

That’s destiny.

Oh, oh, destiny.

It’s destiny where the red water falls

It’s destiny where the black smoke swirls

It’s destiny when the blue won’t leave

And your heart goes away as well.

Stop running, stop trying, stop breathing

Destiny that takes everything from me

Waiting. Waiting. Waiting.

Time stands still

That’s destiny

Oh, oh, destiny.

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