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Jump Don't Jump

from ECHO by Niamh de Barra

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Jump Don't Jump

A sweet, mild-mannered secretary one day climbed to the top of a clock-tower,
She took aim, she took aim.
She said, "My son, my son, I can't take no more,
Put down the pen and take up the sword."
She took aim, she took aim.

A cry for help, or the soul's last unhelpable howl?

What is life but a flowing river?
Jump in
Those below calling up to you,
"Don't jump!"

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from ECHO, released August 7, 2012

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Niamh de Barra County Cork, Ireland

In Pearse Street station, I heard two strangers, on opposite platforms, exchange a song for a tune on the double bass. Everyone in the station fell silent as the man in tweed sang ‘Fly me to the moon’.

So I took to the music. It’s bad luck to ignore signs.
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