Luyện nghe bài hát The Child We Lost 1963

There were shadows in the
Where the light got by the lamp on the nightstand
On mother's side, after midnight, still
You can see it all
You can see it all
And the in the corner
On the far back with the keepsakes, she hid
That box full of letters of regret
By the of the kids

You get recollections of your mother's sigh, countryside drive
And the landscape seen from the window of the with some flowers in a basket

That afternoon after school you and your sisters
Found your in the kitchen at the table
Father off the lid of the box

And a hush fell over everything like a funeral
A reverence, ancestral, in the air

Though you understand what it meant
they never said her name aloud around you
Even sitting at the table her things they'd kept
You recall faintly cards, tiny clothes, and the smell of the in the upstairs bedroom
Until then you didn't know that's what the box had

Your tiptoeing slowly around always speaking in code

No, never said her name aloud around you
Only told you it was perfect where your sister
And you didn't understand why it them so much then that she'd come and left so soon
only guess inside your head at what a "stillbirth" meant
Only knew that mother

You watched while father held her, said "Some things but can't stay here."
You saw a brightness. Like a light through your closed tight then she tumbled away.

From here, place
To remain in the shadows she made
To be an absence in mom, a sadness over her
Like some pentacostal flame, on and off
She was "Sister," whispered.
"Her" or
"The We Lost."

You were
A vagueness, a image
You were

You were a flame lit that burned out twice as as the rest of us did
When you left, you were light, you tumbled away

There are shadows that fall here at a certain angle
In the bedroom on the nightstand by your side
From the light on there

the box in the closet, all the things kept
And the where she left
Flowers on the grave, marble where they etched name
And mother the whole way home

But she never it once out loud
On the way home from where you thought they meant
When said where sister went

After grandpa got hospice and he couldn't fall sleep
They wheeled his bed beside her at night
And I saw the

On the day that he
By their bed in eyes
us grandkids said our goodbyes

She "don't cry"
he holds her
Said a name I didn't
And the light with all the combined