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Song from LookUpLookUp 2019 Melissa Main

Image: gouache and pen

Sometimes when things are hard, we find friends in the skies.

Oh yellow

tailed black

cockatoo

be yelling

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that rain be coming

let it wash your face clean

don’t be wasting all your days

crying

But Oh yellow

tailed black

cockatoo

my neck is so sore

from holding

my sorry head up

Think I’ll just stay here lying dying

in my mangy wombat hole

Everything takes

the time that it takes

Every fuckup

takes a while

to die down

everything takes

the times that it takes

every push up

begins with

a good lie down

a good lie down

oh yellow tailed black cockatoo

be singing

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that change be coming

let it lighten your heart

don’t be wishing away

the daylight

oh yellow tailed black cockatoo

my chest is so sore

from holding my

hope together

better I lie face

down in the sun

til I’m a cake

though I burn everything I bake

I burn everything I bake

Everything takes

the time that it takes

Every fuckup

takes a while

to die down

everything takes

the time

that it takes

you know every push up

begins with

a good lie down

a good lie down

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