Elektra In Lemuria

S. Kilbey

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Elektra In Lemuria

Narration (unofficial)

that's my daughter
that's my girl
she's a twin
got a sister looks just like her
sweet 17 as the crow flies
she's half swedish
she lives in stockholm
she does well at school
she's very popular
she has a part time job
she's west coast and her sister is east coast
she is blue and her sister is red
her sister is miranda
miranda and elektra
two girls with hard bastard daddies
one was a wizard
the other was a king of the greeks
elektra grew from a divided cell
elektra shared the womb
elektra was caesarian birth
elektra was taken out second
elektra was the bigger baby
elektra had slightly straighter hair
they were identical you see
we grasped at their tiny differences
we marveled at their small discrepancies
elektra june jansson-kilbey
she's a real character now
a real beauty
a real teenager
a real person
on the subway going to gamlistan [1:32]
on a plane to berlin
on the bus to newtown
walking alongside the seine
they international kids
they've been all over the shop
they've seen it all
they've seen australia in summer
they've seen sweden in winter
they've seen the good and bad and neutral
elektra knows what she wants
she likes the brady bunch
she likes the spice girls
she likes to collect barbies and teletubbies
not anymore of course
now she's sometimes a little queen
admired by all her drones and workers
she lulls around languidly
not even wondering in her own queenhood
darker sister who is paler watches from the wings cause she's a loner, man
just like patty and billie holiday
man, she's some tragic poetess
but elektra, she'd rather marry a doctor
she'd rather become a lawyer
she likes the finer things ie all the things i ain't got
she's entranced by maya
burning in the passion of youth
she's fierce and vain and brave and lazy
she's intelligent like a machine
she's dopey like her father
she overcomes hurdles
she hates anything maudlin
perfectly fluent in english
distant from her father right now
in many ways distant
distant daughter, distant dad
hope nothing happens
hope we can become close again
hope we can understand each other again
i place her in lemuria
lemuria like a stained glass window
open a window into another world
elektra over-tanned and her hair slightly blonder
elektra with her half smile
god she will break some hearts
elektra go free
run free
experience everything
but be careful
come back to me one day
your father
farther away
open the window into lemuria
it's warm and lush
it's gentle
it's kinda cool in an antediluvian way
oh elektra
oh lemuria
oh my bloodline
oh my constant guitar
oh my exhibition
oh my voice blathering on and on and on and on and on...