Zina

Will you let me know, how others feel, if it's in your bones, my jilted smile's strange, hangs like mist on trees, they see it every day, take your time right now, forget my nights of reels, the river always flows, embrace the pouring rain, laugh in mountain streams, I sing in hopes of praise, you've nothing to bestow, free from crazy schemes, life is our picture show, too long to be a saint, living without a dream, face down dread uncertainty, what you did was wrong, but I see how you've been, replace it with a song, you can join my team.

Xochiti

Bellow at dreams betrayed, conceal bitter unholy things, take them to your grave, you cant afford the Blues, where everything just sinks, heavy notes end on cue, what a sound they make, a curdled love to everything, who will know your fate, smoke cigarettes in the dunes, when called upon to prate, life is just a hula-hoop, it rolls around your days, you really want to fling, salt at heartaches far away, but here's someone brand new, laughs at toys that ring, knows what isn't true, don’t gamble all and say, love to me is nothing, you can’t cheat the age, find a place to sing.

Willa

I still hear me Da, laughing like a foghorn, long ago seems so far, happy he's not scarred, or left forlorn. I start the car, when he stamps the tar, he's like a newborn, a fallen star, I turn the key off, he looks war-torn, what about me Ma, like he's left the ark, he’s not even sure, where he's from, I can’t find a chart, to tell me the score', it’s gone too far, a trip to the park, an old shirt he’s worn, things fall apart, love has no form.

Verity

I hope to keep trouble at bay, any life requires, problems just look away, they'll pester me for loans, your eyes seek the tide, tell them we're gone, stumble in the haze, dampen all desire, fools are easy or brave, scared to your bones, they won’t call you a liar, or chase us with guns, ride the blue waves, like a cold fish knife, love is our only gain, why don't you 'phone, I dance among candlelit signs, don't go on your own, is this what you crave, me turning up for hire, pine needles and hay, a soul on fire?

Ulyssa

It's quiet here now, after fifty years of grief, my face smooth as stone, can still see the cave, where they let me bleed, thank God I'm saved, my body under snow, taken back to the sea, rocking on the tidal flow, give me this grace, grant such serenity, attend all my feast days, geese with barren tones, sail skies as they freeze, time on their shoulder, they honk on their way, late for the season, I'm just the same, in the clean blue dawn, stripped like a tree, in my hands is a rose, the old loving need.

Tilly

If I’m to freeze, my soul strung on wire, someone better set me free, in your eyes amour, will you do what's right, say you know the score, rock me gently, mutter everything‘s fine, don't worry baby, I'm the soul of lost hordes, all entwined, who roll around my floor, glamorous, perfect, serene, kiss me quietly, do what others dream, a perfect night, have I just died, drawing toils of water, a star across the sea, I love the morning light, let me reach the quays, my ship afire.

Sal

Don't say I’m fake, that love can't twist, make me pack my case, the world hesitates, like it has a stitch, I’m not afraid, someone asks for change, for a dollar bill, it'd be churlish to say, go spin on your plate, the cheek of his gist, someone weeps in a door frame, living around this place, could be a launderette, everyone spins their fate, a little smile migrates, I'm with all the misfits, who’ve never seen a wage, such little time of grace, when you figure it, puts a smile upon my face, nothing's missing.