Daphne!
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And no more smile with ocher and sapphire eyes
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Like the flax flowers on the terrace in the morning
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Kiss the wind on the face
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Which brings her the aroma of laurel and helichrysum as a gift
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The mother is absorbed as she listens to her husband
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Long since come from their native country
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They still retain a tribal link
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A social morality beyond the concept of way
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Daphne has grown up and dreams of the world because she knows it is a painting
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She wants to paint it here by hand and with random colors
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The small breast under the black satin
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It swelled like wheat sown in January
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At thirteen the world is large and throbs with her breath
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And between peers she looks at the other sizes and a sigh
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The role of children and a sincere dream
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Her horses, her Frisian horses on the Asian front
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And when she laughed, and when she pretended, and when she decided it
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And when she said "This destiny will never end"
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And when she pushed, when she said, when she admitted it
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She had the saddest eyes in the world that I have
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Little goddess, little foam on high tide
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Flew away, like an idea
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Small leaf carried by the wind on the bottom of the sky
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And the wind can sing
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And she can tell us
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The thousand bitter stories, how, where and why
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When
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As her father told her
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"You won't be able to escape"
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But I can count: one, two, three, four
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"Daphne you are great" says the father "your destiny is written"
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Like your mother and many others, you will honor a diktat
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Tradition, respect and judgment
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You will marry an older and richer villager here "
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She wanted to tell him «You know dad, we are not all the same
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We should be interpreted in many ways like paintings
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In many cases we should be consulted more than our ancestors
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I refuse, you know, we are not all slaves! "
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Meanwhile, it is raining outside and the wind is ringing the ash trees
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And the father supports the words like rocks, yes
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Falling where, no, they make no noise
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But it is a mass that accumulates to bury her heart
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She counts the months and promised one thing now
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That more than a daughter is a betrothed
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Then the wind dwells within a thundering sky
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And if she gives in now she's lost, she knows she only has one choice
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Stop up there Daphne looks what face the world has
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Now that she feels the wind on her face and she sees the overhang
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It would be enough for her to abandon herself and not think much
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You do not feel the emptiness below, if you have all the emptiness around you
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She goes up to the terrace, she looks down at the bottom
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She takes a step, Daphne doesn't look
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Daphne knows how to count, she counts: two, three, four
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Daphne is gone, she has turned into air
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And when she laughed, and when she pretended, and when she decided it
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And when she said "This destiny will never end"
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And when she pushed, when she said, when she admitted it
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She had the saddest eyes in the world that I have
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Little goddess, little foam on high tide
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Flew away, like an idea
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Small leaf carried by the wind on the bottom of the sky
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And the wind can sing
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And she can tell us
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The thousand bitter stories, how, where and why
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When
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As her father told her
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"You won't be able to escape"
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But I can count: one, two, three, four |