Luyện nghe bài hát The Child We Lost 1963

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

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

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

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

Though you didn't what it meant
That 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 paint in the bedroom
Until then you didn't that's what the box had held

Your parents tiptoeing slowly always speaking in code

No, they never said her name around you
Only told you it was perfect where sister went
And you understand why it hurt 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 while father held her, said "Some things come but can't stay here."
You saw a brightness. Like a light through your closed tight then she tumbled away.

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

You were
A vagueness, a faded
You were

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

There are shadows that fall here at a certain angle
In the bedroom on the nightstand by your mother's
From the left on there

There's the box in the closet, all the things
And the landscape where she
Flowers on the grave, marble where etched that name
And mother cried the way home

But she said it once out loud
On the way back home from where you thought they
When they said where went

After grandpa got sick 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
While us grandkids our goodbyes

She "don't cry"
Somewhere he her
Said a I didn't recognize
And the with all the shadows combined