Stillborn letra

Midnight and Yoland has a long walk home
Midwiving a hard labor the baby was stillborn
Still the mother asks to hold the child that never cries
Rocks it gently softly keening a plaintive lullabye
Hush!

Yolanda walks along the river road
Humming softly "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?"
The sky has never shined so bright, the night so dry and clear
Crickets and cicadas consolations in the air

Yolanda's husband wakes the children and dresses them for school
"Your mother was up late last night, I've packed your lunch for you"
So the house lies silent and they all will be home soon
By the time she rises in the early afternoon

Then once again Yolanda walks along the river road
Where the live oaks are dying, pines are crying, sits beneath a willow
Prying from that tender trunk a dry cicada shell
Crushes it in her fist as the sound begins to swell

Michelle Shocked - Letras

• (Don't You Mess Around With) My Little Sister
• 180 Proof
• 33 R.P.M. Soul
• 5 AM in Amsterdam
• A Child Like Grace
• Anchorage
• Arkansas Traveler
• Ballad Of The Battle Of The Ballot And The Bullet Part I: Ugly Americans
• Black Widow
• Blackberry Blossom
• Blackjack Heart
• Campus Crusade
• Can't Take My Joy
• Cold Comfort
• Come A Long Way
• Contest Coming (Cripple Creek)
• Crying Shame
• Disoriented
• Don't Ask
• Don't Tell
• Down on Thomas Street
• Drip Dry
• Early Morning Saturday
• Eddie
• Elaborate Sabotage
• Evacuation Route
• Fever Breaks
• Flight of fancy
• Flying Lesson
• Fogtown
• Fool For Cocaine
• Fools Like Us
• Forgive To Forget
• Fred's Winter Song
• Garden Salad Diplomacy
• Ghost Town (Who Cares?)
• Giantkiller
• Go In Peace
• God Is A Real Estate Developer
• Good News
• Goodbye
• Graffiti Limbo
• Groove Baby's Lullaby
• Hard Way
• Hardcore Hornography
• Hardly Gonna Miss Him
• Heart to Heart
• Hello Hopeville
• Hi Skool
• Hold Me Back (Frankie and Johnny)
• Homestead
• How You Play The Game
• I Know What You Need
• If Love Was A Train
• If Not Here
• Joy
• Jump Jim Crow/Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
• La Cantina El Gato Negro
• Lagniappe
• Laundry Day
• Liquid Prayer
• Little Billie
• Live And Learn
• Lonely Planet
• Looks Like Mona Lisa
• Love's Song
• Making the Run to Gladewater
• Match Burns Twice
• Memories Of East Texas
• Moanin' Dove
• Mouth Of The Mississippi
• Must Be Luff
• Necktie
• No Sign Of Rain
• No Wonder
• On The Greener Side
• Only A Lover
• Other People
• Over The Waterfall
• Paperboy
• Peachfuzz
• Picoesque
• Poll Tax Song
• Psalm
• Psalm 114
• Quality Of Mercy
• Remodeling The Pentagon
• Russian Roulette
• Secret To A Long Life
• See the Sea
• Shaking Hands (Soldier's Joy)
• Silent Ways
• Silver Spoon
• Sleep Keeps Me Awake
• Steppin' Out
• Stillborn
• Strawberry Jam
• Streetcorner Ambassador
• Tabloid
• That's So Amazing
• The 4/4 Troubador
• The Ballad Of Patch Eye And Meg
• The Bitter Pill
• The Cement Lament
• The Chain Smoker
• The Hep Cat
• The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore
• The Secret Admirer
• Too Little Too Late
• True Story
• Used Car Lot
• VFD
• Wanted Man
• Waterproof
• Weasel Be Poppin'
• Weaving Way
• What Can I Say?
• When I Grow Up
• Why Do I Get The Feeling?
• Winter Wheat
• Worth The Weight
• Yamboree Queen
• You Take The Cake