La Dispute - The Child We Lost 1963 lyrics

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There were shadows in the bedroom

Where the light got thrown by the lamp on the night stand

On your mother side after midnight still

You can see it all, you can see it all

At the closet in the corner

On the far black shelf with the keep sakes she hid

That box there full of letters of regret by the pictures of the kids

You get all collection of you mothers’s sign, country side drive

And the landscape scene from the window of the back seat

With some flowers in a basket

That afternoon at the school you and your older sisters

Found your parents in the kitchen at table

Your father lifting of the lid of the box

And a hush fell over everything like a funeral pray

And the reverence, ancestral heavy in the air

But you didn’t understand what it meant

That they never say her name aloud around you

Even sitting at the table with her things they kept

You recall tiny clothes and the smell of the paint from upstairs bedroom

Until then you didn’t know thats what the box had held

Your parents tiptoeing slowly around

Always speaking in code

No they never said her name aloud around you

All they told you is that it was perfect where your sister went

And you didnt understand why it hurt them so much that she come and left so soon

Could only guess inside your head

Ohh they knew their mother wept

You washed why father held her, said somethings come

But can’t stay here

You saw a brightness like a light through your eyes

Close tight then she tumblled away

From here some place

To remane the night if that she made

To be an absens in mom, a sadness hanging over her

Like something uncross the flame

Drifting all and on

She was sister only whisper sometimes here or the child we lost

You’re vision so fading, so fafing image

You’re vision

You were a flame and that light as twice as brightly

As the rest us us

When you left you were right, then tumbel away

There was shadows that fall, still here certain agle

In th bedroom on the night stands

By your mother side from your light left

There’s a box in the closet

With all the things kept and the landscape where she left

Flowers on the grave ...

Go on her way home

She never said it once at loud

On the way back home from were they meant

When he said where her sister wents

After her grandpa got hospise sick

He couldn’t fall asleep

They wheeled his screath the bead a side her at nigh

And I saw a light

On the day that he die by the bed in grandma’s eyes

While we said our goodbyes

She said don’t cry

Somwhere he holds her

Said her name I didn’t reconize

A light with all the shadows cominate

Thanks to Kattie for correcting these lyrics