Alys' Lullabye
Lyrics and melody © 2000 by Catherine Faber
Arrangment © 2000 by Catherine Faber and Arlene
"Callie" Hills
Your memory chip's damaged, it cannot be
quelled.
It's dumping at random the data it held
And only the peers you've trusted for years
Can stop you responding to threats long-dispelled.
Men will war and women will
weep
Midnight flows sullenly, chilly and deep*
I'll sing you a song when you stir in your sleep
And wait by your side till the dawn.
I speak reassurance, while under my
eye
Reacting to crises three decades gone by
Your face shows again the man you were then
Breaking my heart with the pain you deny.
Love I that I reach for I
can't seem to keep*
Bleary and hoarse, two cold hands
gripping tight,
Strength I'd forgotten recalled for this fight
Secrets we keep we now have to reap
Old fears and old sorrows squirm out to the light.
All that I buried I now have
to reap*
In the span of a night I have known you
for years
In the heights of your triumphs, the depths of your
fears
Each lesson and scar that shaped who you are
And shy as a blossom new insight appears.
Though men will war and women
will weep
Yet spring and the sunrise still stubbornly creep*
I'll sing you a song when you stir in your sleep
And wait by your side till the dawn.
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