Luyện nghe bài hát The Child We Lost 1963

There shadows in the bedroom
Where the light got thrown by the lamp on the
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 with the keepsakes, she hid
That box there of letters of regret
By the of the kids

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

That 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 everything like a funeral prayer
A reverence, ancestral, in the air

Though you understand what it meant
That they said her name aloud around you
sitting at the table with her things they'd kept
You faintly cards, tiny clothes, and the smell of the paint in the upstairs bedroom
Until then you didn't know that's what the box had

parents tiptoeing slowly around always speaking in code

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

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

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

You visions
A vagueness, a faded
You visions

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

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

There's the box in the closet, all the things
And the where 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 back home from where you thought they
When they said where went

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

On the day that he
By bed in grandma's eyes
us grandkids said our goodbyes

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