Paper Mache

from A Fox Just Be a Fox by Flossie and the Fox

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Since my father's voice
Since his strumming fingers
My mother's mime class tapes
her scherenschnitte scissors

Paper Mache, Paper Mache
My mom a hero in that day
She made puppets for her pay
We filled our stomachs in that way

In my pale pink dress
singing "Apple Red Happiness"
never wondering what was next
never wondering what was next

Since three indian sisters
Peter Blaire's long fingers
Making my hands dream
He taught Piano
We bought him groceries

I felt he believed in me
I felt he believed in me

I was just a child, just a 5 yr. old child
that's when I decided
I wanted to be a songwriter
I was just a child, just a 21 yr. old child
that's when I decided
I wanted to be a music maker

Since I first heard hope
in the style of illumination
still don't know what I found
in those Psalms of David

"as the deer pants for
the water so my soul..."
well I don't know what I pant for
but I long for it all the more.

Second star still in sight
I climb back in my window
with Peter Pan at my side
I realize I am older

but this flying won't subside
I am only growing bolder
and I will always be a child
I will always be a child

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from A Fox Just Be a Fox, released September 9, 2014
guitar and lyrics by Rachael Haft
violin by Aaron Clark

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Flossie and the Fox Pensacola, Florida

Flossie and the Fox is the solo project of Rachael Haft, a blues vocalist and picker who belts out angsty bluesy poetry on a Sheraton hollow body and sometimes her father's old Sigma. Driven by compulsively honest lyrics and an emotional yet gritty voice, her songs are about identity. Her debut album, A Fox Just Be a Fox, is a collection of odes to individualism and childhood. ... more

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