She draped herself in widow weeds
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Veil of black and buttoned sleeves
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Hid her face from the world
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A shadow where once had been a girl
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Her husband of past twenty years
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Had passed away leaving her in tears
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Heart full of the future's fears
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She kneels beside his grave
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Where should be colour every day
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Just widow weeds, her friends all say
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"Please stop your tears and throw away
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Those widow weeds of black and grey"
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Then she did wail a chilling sound
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Beat her fists and hit the ground
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She moaned his name, she pulled her hair
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She chanted verse and muttered prayer
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How could a man so just, so good
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Leave her a widow like he could
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Where should be colour every day
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Just widow weeds, her friends all say
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"Please stop your tears and throw away
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Those widow weeds of black and grey"
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And deep within chador of lace
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The deep etched sorrow on her face
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This Madonna in her cowl of grief
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Subservient in her belief
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Then came the reading of the will
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Grief had hold within her still
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But unable to believe her ears
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She stopped her sobbing, halted tears
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Not a penny, not a pound
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No provision to be found
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Not a thought of recognition
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The will was read with cold precision
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Anger jumped up in her breast
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Well maybe this was for the best
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Even as the will was blessed
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She tore away her veil
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Tears of rage to tears of joy
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No more grief from Death's envoy
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No more weeping, gnashing teeth
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No more prostrate with grief
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She thought he loved her
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So sure he loved her
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She thought he loved her
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So sure he loved her
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But all his treasure all his wealth
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Just signify love for himself
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Just signify love for himself
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The chador fell unto the earth
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Witness a woman's rebirth
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Witness a woman's rebirth
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She exorcised Grief's ugly demon
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With a new found sense of freedom
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Where should be colour every day
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Just widow weeds, now she can say
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She stopped her tears and threw away
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Those widow weeds of black and grey
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Widow Weeds
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Marc Almond |