Beautifully Broken...

This fractured and fading photograph of a girl in pink has been haunting me for days now. The oval ceramic tile bearing her foggy features may be all that remains of her life. And how many others have vanished without a trace? If they had had the wondrous means we possess today, the possibility to blog, to take digital photographs or write poems and share them around the world in a split second ; what stories might this young lady have left us before fading into the obscurity of an image on a stone ? There is a piece of music that I would dedicate to you, whoever you were, wherever you may be now... a version of the Jimi Hendrix tune "Little Wing" as performed by Monte Montgomery. And there is a second piece of music which comes to mind as well, "Beautifully Broken", for which the lyrics are copied in below here, and for which also there is a good live version on YouTube right here ... "she's so beautifully broken, shaped by the wind"... what a beautiful song...
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Beautifully Broken
Lyrics & Music : Warren Haynes, Danny Louis
( debuted with Phil Lesh & Friends on 30 June 2001)
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Mysterious, blown in with the night
All this beauty captured in a frame
Visibly shaken, but never stirred
Drives them insane
I see the way she plays her men
And I know I've got to know her name
She's so beautifully broken
Shaped by the wind
Dangerously twisted
Here I go again
I see the way she cast her spell
It's like drowning in moonlight
Discards them she's done
They're lost in her twilight
I watch her move from star to star
And I wonder why, why it feels so right
She's so beautifully broken
You can barely see the flaw
Especially from a distance
Which is always how I fall
Why do I fall for the dangerous ones?
The ones that never learned to let go
And why do I lie to myself
And pretend that I can break her
When she's already been so
Beautifully broken
Why do I fall for the dangerous ones?
The ones that don't know how to let go
And why do I lie to myself
And pretend that I could break her
When she's already been so
Beautifully broken
Shaped by the wind
Dangerously twisted
Here I go again
Here I go again

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