Bluz – Amy [Video]

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Bluz, performing at Main Street Players in Miami Lakes, FL.

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dear Amy this world will love you less
0:06
when the luster of liquor stops
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trickling over the rocks of your tonsils
0:10
you are promised that a father will try
0:13
to keep from breaking he will fail
0:16
because this world wants your pain too
0:19
much will tear the flesh from every note
0:22
you sing and wear it as a trophy they
0:25
will find you like they found Cobain at
0:27
27 on the cusp of finding your voice
0:30
finding your vice finding that the lick
0:33
of sin tastes just like heaven until
0:35
they find you in your flat flatline
0:37
bassline I’m sure by then your mind was
0:41
more scattered sheet music than Grammy
0:43
generating genius but you can’t slow
0:45
down those monsters are waiting for your
0:48
next single written in blood
0:50
waiting to boo you off stage at worst
0:53
stage in your life only to praise you
0:56
and raise you in iTunes three days later
0:59
who knew that Billie Holiday
1:01
we run deeper in your veins than just
1:04
her voice god bless the child that’s god
1:08
oh oh
1:10
demons to drown bottles to bury in
1:14
bottom of liver did you deliver from the
1:17
gut Amy are you listening Amy the same
1:20
way we mr. sad messages on repeat
1:24
messages text into the alto of your jaws
1:27
my father my father said he had friends
1:30
like you but they are better memories
1:32
now better lessons learn through song so
1:35
sing something for us and make it good
1:39
this time before we take you back to
1:42
black back to with little girls playing
1:44
divas wish for a voice that could sonic
1:47
boom a star-spangled banner because
1:49
right now somewhere in a hotel only
1:53
meant for holding broken angels hostage
1:57
Amy your ghost will draw a bath for
2:00
Whitney Houston to drown her Janis
2:02
Joplin’s in here little broken Bobbi
2:07
Kristina’s dressed as broken groom
2:10
in sync under the world’s expectations
2:13
of hitting the right note your throat
2:15
will feel like an escape that everyone
2:18
gets to run through but you you will not
2:21
get to escape your own demise that the
2:24
water will be warm like a kiss like a
2:26
kiss in the middle of winter it will be
2:28
the first time in a long time that you
2:30
might have ever felt like singing ever
2:33
felt this close to God ask him what tea
2:36
is this misery in what pain is this
2:39
misery and all Amy you are going to make
2:42
a way out of no way but everything that
2:44
looks like Fame will also look like
2:46
flame I’m telling you you’re going to
2:49
hear things you’re going to see things
2:51
in wonder wonder what every diva like
2:54
you before has ever wondered and you
2:56
sing the song that Whitney often sing
2:58
with one question one question about
3:01
everyone who’s facing you and telling
3:03
you and applauding you and you’re just
3:04
wondering how will I know if they really
3:10
love me
3:14
[Applause]

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