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Thorns All Over

from Thorns All Over by Jay Vilnai

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lyrics

I tell you: there’s nothing I could have wanted more

From his heels to the base of his skull

His face and sweet head like a soft blooming rose 

While I was all thorns all over, thorns all over

We used to walk together, we used to take lingering drives

Down the cliffs to the sea where the caves filled with the tides

Wild roses grew up through the sand

We would walk hand in hand and
I would hide my thorns, hide my thorns



It was no special day, no lingering moon

The tide was between high and low

I had heard in the days before

That he had found a girl with no thorns, no thorns



I found her down by the sea cave that juts black from the shore 

She stood watching the waves, face tipped just so in 
the gleam

I pictured her with him, not a thorn between them


I knelt to the sand, closed my hand ‘round a rose branch

I tore it from the sand; it was woody and paled

I caught her fair throat from behind

The thorns painted her flesh

She grasped at the rose

I held on like a drowning thing

Until she could wash out to sea

Embedded with thorns

So now I walk with him hand and hand down the shore

And I coil the stems where he cannot see

I look at his sweet throat and imagine studding there

Thorns, thorns like sparks of light on the waves

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from Thorns All Over, released June 6, 2019

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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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