Delaney clears his throat. “Can we have a copy of Miss Thomas’s lyrics please?” he asks her lawyer, and she immediately slides a folder across the desk toward him, tapping her highly polished fingernail on the tab she wants us to open.
Delaney opens the folder and moves it so that it’s sitting on the table between us, that way we can both read over the page at the same time.
I start from the very beginning, reading over the first verse, and I can feel Brinley’s eyes on me the entire time I’ve got my eyes leveled on the page in front of me.
Destiny
When sunlight fades and the streets turn to gold
And the city I know is no longer my home
Glimpses of blue and then day turns to night
And all I can hear are the sounds of sheer fright
I fall to the ground, the floor of contempt
I feel the blame closing in on me
Just wait a bit longer
Something I need is coming my way
But when, when will the blue go away
I guess I thought we would always stay the same
But I’m terrified, in my heart, and in my mind
It’s not a game.
I won’t have to wonder, I’ll always know
When you took it away from me I couldn’t explain
That’s destiny.
Oh, oh, destiny.
It’s destiny where the red water falls
It’s destiny where the black smoke swirls
It’s destiny when the blue won’t leave
And your heart goes away as well.
Stop running, stop trying, stop breathing
Destiny that takes everything from me
Waiting. Waiting. Waiting.
Time stands still
That’s destiny
Oh, oh, destiny.