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Hello, my name is Rian Shree and I am the music director of Justice New Musical here
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at Marin Theatre Company. In this song, called The Mind Goes, Sandra Day O'Connor, played by Karen Murphy, wrestles
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with her incredible legacy as a glass-breaking justice alongside the dawning reality of her
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steadily progressing dementia. Mmm, mmm, mmm
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Slips of a mind, slips of the tongue. Critical tasks that you've begun just average
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Out of my depth, out of my head, losing the words that I just said
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Like I'm a sink, like I'm a tree, memories shedding like leaves
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And the mind goes fast, and the days flash by. You stand in the kitchen, but you don't know why
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When you look down and see unfamiliar clothes. All the opinions, so wise, gone
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Passing you like a parade, gone. When the mind goes
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Forests of thought, thorny and vague. More recent threats swarm like a plague of love lusts
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Cut every thought, cut to the chase. How to endure it without grace
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Live in the now, seizing today. Letting good form drift away. And the mind goes fast, and the hours go slow
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Tick-tock goes the grandfather clock, you don't know. When your son takes your hand and gives his name
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Nothing's the same. And the mind gives way, like it's packed to full
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Your insides are China, and time is a bull. When you know it's a bug, but forget it's a rose
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All the glass ceilings you broke, cracked. All like a practical joke, cracked
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When the mind goes. Dreams of old age suddenly
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Where was I? What was I? Back on the ranch where I was born
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I was a... Now I'm a... Now I'm a husk without a core
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And the mind goes. And your roots are split. You were brilliant, resilient
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And now you're unfit. When you know how it ends, but you're caught in the throes
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All the decisions so wide lost. All of the light in your eyes lost
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When the mind goes. And the mind goes
