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Jane Siberry - It Can't Rain All The Time
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Jane Siberry - Calling All Angels
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Jane Siberry - Oh My Sister
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Jane Siberry - Above The Treeline
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Jane Siberry - Adam And Eve
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Jane Siberry - All The Candles In The World
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Jane Siberry - All Through The Night
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Jane Siberry - An Angel Stepped Down (and Slowly Looked Around)
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Jane Siberry - Angel Voyeur
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Jane Siberry - Anytime
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Jane Siberry - Are We Dancing Now?
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Jane Siberry - Are You Burning, Little Candle?
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Jane Siberry - At The Beginning Of Time
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Jane Siberry - Barkis Is Willin'
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Jane Siberry - Begat Begat
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Jane Siberry - Berlin Is Far Away
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Jane Siberry - Bessie
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Jane Siberry - Bound By The Beauty
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Jane Siberry - Broken Birds
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Jane Siberry - Burning Ship
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Jane Siberry - Caravan
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Jane Siberry - Dancing Class
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Jane Siberry - Everything Reminds Me Of My Dog
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Jane Siberry - Extra Executives
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Jane Siberry - False False Fly
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Jane Siberry - First Word
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Jane Siberry - Flirtin' Is A Flo-thing
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Jane Siberry - Foecke
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Jane Siberry - Follow Me
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Jane Siberry - Freedom Is Gold
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Jane Siberry - Goin' Down The River
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Jane Siberry - Goodbye
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Jane Siberry - Goodbye Sweet Pumpkinhead
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Jane Siberry - Grace Hospital
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Jane Siberry - Half Angel Half Eagle
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Jane Siberry - Hockey
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Jane Siberry - Honey Bee
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Jane Siberry - Hope You Have Your Camera
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Jane Siberry - Hotel Room 417
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Jane Siberry - I Muse Aloud
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Jane Siberry - I Paddle My Canoe
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Jane Siberry - In The Blue Light
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Jane Siberry - La Jalouse
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Jane Siberry - Last Word
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Jane Siberry - Lena Is A White Table
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Jane Siberry - Let's Not Talk Now
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Jane Siberry - Love Is Everything
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Jane Siberry - Lovin' Cup
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Jane Siberry - Map Of The World (part I)
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Jane Siberry - Map Of The World (part II)
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Jane Siberry - Marco Polo
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Jane Siberry - Maria
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Jane Siberry - Mary Had...
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Jane Siberry - Mein Bitte
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Jane Siberry - Mimi On The Beach
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Jane Siberry - Mimi Speaks
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Jane Siberry - Miss Punta Blanca
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Jane Siberry - Nasty And Delicious
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Jane Siberry - Oh My My
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Jane Siberry - One More Colour
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Jane Siberry - Puppet City
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Jane Siberry - Red High Heels
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Jane Siberry - Sail Across The Water
- 64
Jane Siberry - See The Child
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Jane Siberry - Seven Steps To The Wall
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Jane Siberry - Slow Tango
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Jane Siberry - Something About Trains
- 68
Jane Siberry - Song To My Father
- 69
Jane Siberry - Sweet Incarnadine
- 70
Jane Siberry - Symmetry (the Way Things Have To Be)
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Jane Siberry - Taxi Ride
- 72
Jane Siberry - Temple
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Jane Siberry - The Bird In The Gravel
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Jane Siberry - The Gospel According To Darkness
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Jane Siberry - The Life In The Red Wagon
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Jane Siberry - The Lobby
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Jane Siberry - The Magic Beads
- 78
Jane Siberry - The Mystery At Ogwen's Farm
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Jane Siberry - The Sky Is So Blue
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Jane Siberry - The Strange Well
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Jane Siberry - The Valley
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Jane Siberry - The Waitress
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Jane Siberry - The Walking (and Constantly)
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Jane Siberry - The White Tent The Raft
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Jane Siberry - This Girl I Know
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Jane Siberry - Trumpeter Swan
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Jane Siberry - Vigil (The Sea)
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Jane Siberry - Viking Heart
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Jane Siberry - Vladimir Vladimir
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Jane Siberry - We Should Be There By Morning
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Jane Siberry - When Last I Was A Fisherman
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Jane Siberry - When Spring Comes
- 93
Jane Siberry - Would You Go
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Jane Siberry - Writers Are A Funny Breed
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Jane Siberry - You Don't Need
- 96
Jane Siberry - You Say I Say
Mimi Speaks
Jane Siberry
Floating on a pink surfboard
With a picnic lunch and parasol
Sitting there like a typical girl
You don't know me but I've been watching you all day. I thought that by ignoring you perhaps you'd go away. I thought it was just too much sun as I faced out across the bay. Hearing all these voices telling me how to spend my day. Then I turned around and I saw you standing there. Talking all this time. Talking like you care. It's been ten years and you haven't gone away. So I'm finally speaking up. It's time to have my say.
First of all, my name isn't Mimi. It's Ruth.
Ruth-Mimadoni-Castradicus-Phaterpithecus-Triumvatini.
And I come from a family of ten children. A tomboy. The youngest. I learned to fight before I learned to walk. To fight for my place in a space without grace. All cannons open by the age of two. By six I ruled the schoolyard. By fourteen I ruled the shopping malls.
Loud. Active. Restless. Arrogant. Aggressive.
And STRONG.
I couldn't understand these flimsy things called 'teenage girls'. They scattered before me like ineffective dolls. So I bullied them even more in my consternation. Trying to make them break out. Trying to beat them into consciousness. And then one day, I was working on this little bit of a thing. Trying to whip her into three dimensions. She was shaking and looking confused. Way beyond her ken. I was just about to give her one last kick, when all of a sudden, she got real silent. I mean, REAL silent.
And from somewhere faraway, someone called my name.
RUTH-MIMADONI-CASTRADICUS-PHATERPITHICUS-TRIUMVATINI.
And a pink surfboard was handed to me.
And a voice said "her name will be Mimi".
And they gently urged me forward to the edge of the water.
And we moved out onto the sea, Mimi and me.
And the language between us was wordless and hung in the air.
And I spent a lot of time thinking about chains that bound the others but not me.
And then I started to feel so trapped by feeling oh-so-free.
And some days I hated the pink. I HATED the pink.
Pink for weakness and girls and little posies. Pink for subjugation, oppression, asexuality, moral shrivenness, ignorance, and painted toesies.
And yet it's pink that is my friend out here. Out on the sea that I'm learning to fear.
Pink that's showing me the way. Learning how to NOT have my say. To hear what YOU might have to say.
Stand up, Mimi. Stand up.
And so you're saying 'stand up' to a natural athlete. It's MUCH harder for me to sit here feeling oh-so-incomplete.
Something strange occurred
On the local beach that day
One girl paddled out to sea
The other slowly walked away