{"id":329,"date":"2022-05-10T09:50:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T14:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.jeanneneumann.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2022-05-13T11:40:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T16:40:59","slug":"emmie-lo-demeters-song-i-would-burn-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.jeanneneumann.com\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"Emmie Lo: Demeter’s Song (I would burn the World)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Emmie<\/a>

Emmie Lo (22) performing I Would Burn the World<\/p><\/div>\n

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Performance<\/a><\/h2>\n

I Would Burn the World<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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You were in the meadow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Picking flowers with your friends<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Just like all those times before<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We ever knew what sorrow meant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You were so excited,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Like the day when you were born<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When you smiled up at me<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And I knew that I would burn the world<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If it keeps you smiling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Then the earth broke open<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And the Host-of-Many rose,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And with his deathless horses,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dragged you down beneath the misty dark and<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To his hellish home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You were screaming for your father<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You were screaming for your friends<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And you cried my name,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But I could not hear you then.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And no one of gods or mortals<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Underneath the barren sky<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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None but Hecate<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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From her deep cave heard you cry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So she came to meet me<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Holding torches in her hands<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She said, \u201cSome man or god has taken your daughter,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But who? I could not see\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So we asked the Sun God<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For he gazes on all things<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And he said, \u201cDon\u2019t worry,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Her daddy\u2019s got it all arranged<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She\u2019ll have heaps of honors,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hades is a great catch,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You should be so proud.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Stop this silly anger,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Don\u2019t you weep<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There\u2019s no reason to cry anymore<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Stop being so unreasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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They can say you\u2019re better off now<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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They can beg and praise and fawn<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But I will never be okay now you are gone<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Let the people die of famine<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Let the barley fall in vain<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I\u2019ll let nothing grow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2019til I see your face again<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The gods can keep their useless honors<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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They can keep their thrones of gold<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I will make them pay for the way<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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They hurt you so<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So they let you come home<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And I held you in my arms<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But Hades in secret<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Forced you to eat<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A pomegranate seed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So for two thirds of the year<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You\u2019re with me in glorious light<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But when winter comes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You sink beneath the earth and rule all who have died.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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