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Shape of Your Sorrow

from Open Road by Diane Patterson

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In memory of those who died in the Orlando shooting at Pulse nightclub in spring of 2016. And always giving thanks to the families and friends of the fallen who remember and honor their dead.

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Shape of Your Sorrow
by Diane Patterson

What is the shape of your sorrow?
What is the shape of your sorrow?
Scars that heal with time and scars that don’t heal
Scars that go away and scars that stay
What is the shape of your sorrow?

Where were you that night when shots rang out in Orlando?
Where were you when the queens and kings of Pulse
Died on the dance floor?
Where were you, and was your hand on the trigger too
Because you hadn’t separated your hatred from your fear?
Where were you when loneliness and shame took a young man’s heart?
Where were you when loneliness and shame turned him into walking sorrow?

What is the shape of your sorrow?
Tears that fall on your guitar
What is the shape of your sorrow?
Tears that fall on your guitar
What is the shape of your sorrow?

Mine is shaped like a heart bent into a tear drop
falling on the dance floor
Mine is shaped like a heart bent into a tear drop
Falling with the souls, and the blood, and their bodies
Mine is shaped like a heart shaking on the dance floor
Mine is shaped like a heart, simple free,
Simply you, simply me
What is the shape of your sorrow?
What is the shape of it?

Tears that fall on your guitar
Nonviolent revolution
Tears that fall on your guitar
We’re here, we’re queer
Tears that fall on your guitar
Black lives matter
Tears that fall on your guitar
El pueblo unido
Tears that fall on your guitar
Jamás será vencido
Tears that fall on your guitar
Nonviolent revolution

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from Open Road, track released February 23, 2018
Ani DiFranco on backing vocals, Todd Sickafoose on bass and keyboard sounds, Terence Higgins on drums. Diane, guitar and vocals. Produced by Mike Napolitano.

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Diane Patterson Ashland, Oregon

Folkgoddess Diane Patterson sings the world awake with powerful voice and revolutionary lyrics. Her sincere spirit and roots storytelling plant seeds of respect and justice. She’s fueled by music-as-activism and love-as-revolution. Made in New Orleans, Diane’s new 2018 album features Mike Napolitano and Ani DiFranco. ... more

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