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Things go bump at night
Deliver me a fright
They never seem to stand still

Books fall from the shelves
Read by some former selves
With verses that portend ill

Shapes form in the air
Entangle in my hair

My mind has become a haunted house
It never seems to settle
My mind has become a haunted house
It’s full of dying petals from a rose

Things I’m sure have died
Are right here by my side
As if they’ve never left me

My mind has become a haunted house
It shakes at every hour
My mind has become a haunted house
I’ve never had a flower that survived

A floorboard’s eerie creak
A distant curdled shriek
They keep me up till morning

Lovers from the past
I’ve put to rest at last
Still sing me songs of longing

My mind has become a haunted house
It never seems to settle
My mind has become a haunted house
The tea boils in the kettle on its own

A freezing draft in June
The door howls at the moon
A light that always flickers

Faces in the glass
A constant smell of gas
And angry furtive whispers

The basement steps they squeak
I dare not take a peak
At what I think is lurking there

I don’t know when
Things got so out of hand
The cleanup I’ve been shirking

My mind has become a haunted house
My mind has become a haunted house

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Jay Vilnai New York

"the missing link between Rasputina and Bernard Herrmann"

A composer and performer with versatile abilities, Vilnai’s music draws on everything from Balkan music, blues, a plethora of jazz styles and Western concert music. Whether writing for chamber ensembles, performing, or producing his own recordings, his music deals with ritual and social activity, folk music elements and a sense of song. ... more

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