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Tesseract

from Treasures & Time Travel by Sue Fink

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"A Wrinkle in Time," by Madeleine L’Engle, was the impetus for this one... where a *tesseract* is exactly that, a wrinkle in time, that allows one to travel great distances through time and space very quickly.

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Tesseract
© 2018, Sue Fink

Oooh oooh oooh…

I was the girl on the back of the school bus,
Reading Ms. Madeleine L’Engle
Trying to figure out how I could Tesseract
Out of my life’s messy tangle

Where home was a war zone, we fought loud and free
When things got too tense, they could always blame me…
– Tesseract over the land and the sea –
To some place where I wouldn’t strangle

Oooh oooh oooh…

Crazy teenager, a screamer and rager
Container of anger and sorrow
Behind the White Hen, smokin’ my cigarettes, which
Somehow I’d beg or I’d ‘borrow’

Ignoring my mother, she didn’t hold sway
My sisters, they tried, but I pushed them away…
Still: I had friends, and to them I could say things –
I prayed for a better tomorrow

Everything has brought me here…
Oooh oooh oooh…

I was the woman who couldn’t trust love
To me it seemed only illusion
Hurt and betrayal the things I knew best, so:
A wall seemed the safest solution

Love in my heart a defective balloon, it would
Burst into pieces just moments too soon…
Still, there was sweetness, I tasted the spoon –
Then wrote all about my confusion

Oooh oooh oooh…

Yes, I did Tesseract far from those hard times:
I look back at them now with wonder
Each heartache morphed into some kind of treasure –
A chest full of them I now plunder

Sifting through memories that once caused me pain
Washed clean by time and the soft summer rain…
And all these years later, I find the refrain, as the
Wheels roll with gravelly thunder

Everything has brought me here…

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from Treasures & Time Travel, released September 23, 2018
Sue: vocals, keyboard
Bruce Roper: keyboard

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Sue Fink Chicago, Illinois

Chicago-based singer-songwriter Sue Fink enchants audiences with her whimsical perspective on the world. Her genre, “urban campfire cabaret,” is folk with a hint of jazz, a large dollop of humor, and a drop of sadness for good measure: think Christine Lavin, with a dash of Rickie Lee Jones, Melanie, and Nellie McKay. ... more

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