08. Hazel's Nine Sides — By; Lexmilian de Mello

[BEGIN SUNO LYRICS] [Intro - whispers] What is your name? What is your name? Hazel, Hazel, Who holds the frame? [Verse 1] She came like weather through a broken room, Laughter, thunder, perfume, doom. One face crying like a frightened child, One face grinning, bright and wild. One face reading the mind like glass, One face cursing the hours that pass. One face kneeling with a Christian fear, One face saying: don't come near. [Pre-Chorus] Was it shadow, was it mind? Was it trauma left behind? Was it theatre, was it flame? I forgot to ask her name. [Chorus] Hazel's nine sides, turning in the hall, A kaleidoscope heart with a crack in the wall. Possession or pain, thunder or tears, A young soul carrying forty thousand years. Hazel's nine sides, don't let mercy die, But don't let darkness teach the truth to lie. [Verse 2] The good side danced with a generous spark, Warm as a candle in a ruined dark. She could laugh at herself, she could help and shine, Then vanish again past a trembling line. The whirlwind spoke with a comic face, The wanderer slept in a poorer place. The hunted girl saw danger bloom, And filled with knives the ordinary room. [END SUNO LYRICS] [BEGIN SUNO LYRICS] [Extension 1 - darker, layered voices] [Verse 3] Something hovered, or seemed to hover there, Overlapping skin and hair. A presence folded into her shape, A secret the daylight could not translate. Old-lady voice from an ancient well, Saying years no calendar can tell. I stood with fear inside my chest, Too stunned to ask the simplest test. [Call and Response] Lead: What is your name? Whisper: We are the many. Lead: What is your pain? Whisper: There is plenty. Lead: What is the truth? Whisper: You cannot prove it. Lead: What must I do? Choir: Do not remove it. [Bridge] Occult doors and prison chains, Falsehood running through the veins. Self-made wounds and blame misplaced, A human life almost erased. Eighteen days could not contain The storm, the curse, the fear, the strain. [Chorus] Hazel's nine sides, turning in the hall, A kaleidoscope heart with a crack in the wall. Possession or pain, thunder or tears, A young soul carrying forty thousand years. [END SUNO LYRICS] [BEGIN SUNO LYRICS] [Extension 2 - moral compassion] [Verse 4] If I tell it, who will believe? If I hide it, what will I grieve? Proof is a door the sky keeps closed, Some truths bloom where no camera goes. But mercy must stand with a sober guard, Love alone is not enough in a yard Where fear can dress itself as need And kindness can be made to bleed. [Final Chorus] Hazel's nine sides, turning in the hall, A kaleidoscope heart with a crack in the wall. Possession or pain, thunder or tears, A young soul carrying forty thousand years. Hazel's nine sides, don't let mercy die, But don't let darkness teach the truth to lie. [Outro - choir] Name the wound, name the flame, Name the self beneath the name. If peace can gather what terror divides, Let light find Hazel's nine sides. Let light find Hazel's nine sides. [END SUNO LYRICS]