Luyện nghe bài hát The Child We Lost 1963

There were in the bedroom
Where the light got thrown by the on the nightstand
On your mother's side, midnight, still
You can see it all
You can see it all
And the closet in the
On the far back shelf the keepsakes, she hid
That box there of letters of regret
By the pictures of the

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

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

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

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

Your parents slowly around always speaking in code

No, they said her name aloud around you
Only told you it was perfect your sister went
And you didn't understand why it hurt so much then that she'd come and left so soon
Could only guess inside your at what a "stillbirth" meant
Only knew that wept

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

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

You visions
A vagueness, a faded
You visions

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

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

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

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

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

On the day he died
By bed in grandma's eyes
While us said our goodbyes

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