INTRO (AUNT FRANCES – storytelling tone)
Contemporary musical Haunting folk-waltz prologue in a lilting 6/8 with acoustic guitar, bowed fiddle, and warm but eerie three-part female harmonies, beginning like a fireside story before gradually deepening into something more ominous; instrumentation should feel organic and rooted — light hand percussion, subtle bass drone, and wind-like ambient textures — as layered voices enter in call-and-response, building into a sweeping, harmonized chorus that feels both beautiful and foreboding; dynamics rise gently rather than explosively, maintaining a sense of inevitability and generational memory, with the final refrain softening into an ambiguous, whispered cadence that suggests the curse may be as much belief as magic.
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Lyrics
INTRO (AUNT FRANCES – storytelling tone)
In a town that liked its fences
And its daughters quiet and pale
There lived a line of women
With a habit of leaving a trail
Of broken clocks and broken men
Of candles burned too long
Of love that bloomed at midnight
And never lasted till dawn
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VERSE 1 – AUNT JET
They say it started centuries ago
With a woman wild and young
Who begged the night to freeze her heart
When the wrong man came along
She cast a spell beneath the moon
With salt and tear and breath
She asked to never feel that pain
The night obliged —
With death
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ENSEMBLE (soft harmony)
Every Owens woman
Who dares to fall in love
Will bury what she’s chosen
Before she’s had enough
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VERSE 2 – AUNT FRANCES
They tried to hide in normal lives
With curtains drawn and neat
But love finds cracks in careful walls
And walks in off the street
They tried to swear it off like wine
They tried to close the door
But fate is patient
Fate is kind
And fate is keeping score
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CHORUS (full ensemble, haunting but lilting)
The Owens curse
The whispered word
The promise made
The lesson learned
If you give your heart
You give your grave
If you love
You will not save
The Owens curse
Soft as a sigh
You’ll love him once
And watch him die
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VERSE 3 – AUNT JET (softer, almost tender)
But here’s the thing about a curse
It needs a willing hand
It feeds on fear and prophecy
It grows when we demand
That love must be a lightning strike
Or written in the sky
Sometimes a curse
Is just a story
We refuse to let
Die
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FINAL CHORUS (gentler, ambiguous)
The Owens curse
Or so they say
Will steal the men
And make them stray
But maybe fate
Is just a choice
A spell
We keep
In our own voice
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BUTTON (whispered)
Every Owens woman
Who dares to fall in love…