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The Scarlet Slippers (song)

from Storytime by Joanne Harris and the Storytime Band

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I knew you by your scarlet shoes, as red as cherry wine
Your lips, I knew, were cherry too; I took it as a sign.
I watched you in the market-place; I watched you in the street
And though I never saw your face, my heart was at your feet.

My scarlet slippers, lined with silk, were all you knew of me.
The rest was just a mirage, like the shimmer of the sea.
You wanted to protect me from a world I'd never known;
I wanted freedom; unknown skies; a place to call my own.

I promised you my heart, my soul, if you would come to me,.
You promised you would make me whole if I showed you the sea.
You hid your face so modestly that I believed your lie
And then, together, off we rode into the desert sky.

That night, we slept beneath the skies, below a desert moon,
As scarlet as my silken shoes upon the rosy dune.
You spoke to me of love; you said your heart was all aflame;
You said no man would see my face, or even speak my name.

At last we reached the ocean, gleaming far across the plain.
I waited, but you never came;I searched for you in vain.
I knew then, by your scarlet shoes abandoned on the shore
That I would never make you mine, or see you any more.

Beneath the waves, the mermaids sing. Their voices rise and fall
In laughter and in welcoming. I must obey their call.
Barefoot I dance upon the sand; unveiled, I ride the sea
And by my red shoes on the shore, you will remember me.

credits

from Storytime, released October 1, 2018
Words: Joanne Harris
Music: Paul Marshall, Kevin Harris

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Joanne Harris and the Storytime Band Huddersfield, UK

Joanne Harris (joanne-harris.co.uk) is the internationally acclaimed author of over 20 novels, plus short stories, libretti and scripts. With the Storytime Band, she performs original music and songs - along with the stories that inspired them - festivals across the UK.

“Harris plays a mean flute... her band supply accomplished folk-prog textures. Enchanting.” (Prog Magazine, August 2018)
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