Luyện nghe bài hát The Child We Lost 1963

There were shadows in the
Where the got thrown by the lamp on the nightstand
On your side, after midnight, still
You can see it all
You can see it all
And the closet in the
On the far shelf with the keepsakes, she hid
That box there full of 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 in a basket

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

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

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

Your parents slowly around always speaking in code

No, they never said her name aloud 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 inside your head at what a "stillbirth" meant
knew that mother wept

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

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

You were
A vagueness, a image
You visions

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

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

There's the box in the closet, all the kept
And the landscape she left
Flowers on the grave, marble where they that name
And mother cried the whole way

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 stretcher bed her at night
And I saw the

On the day he died
By their bed in grandma's
While us grandkids said our

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