Name: Mother & Child
Duration: P00H05M00S
Description: A Welfare-Mother on the run with her child, worrying if she can protect her child, worrying over their fate.

Mother & Child

from Whispers of Arias (I) by Stephen Mead

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A Welfare-Mother on the run with her child, worrying if she can protect her child, worrying over their fate.

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Mother & Child

Wheels & tracks, baby
Don’t worry, I ain’t gonna
Let you be taken. Hush-a-bye.
Hush-a-bye. Sleep now, that’s right.
I got a couple hundred dollars
& in this knapsack you’re pretty
Much hid just in case, you know,
That welfare lady’s put out some
Warrant. O.K.
We’re hitching a ride & will hop
The next train soon. 3 A.M.
I think it’s early enough,
The whole station still groggy.
Thank god, it’s rainin’, good
Warm muggy dust of diesel…
Makes me wanna doze too.
Come on, hon, don’t wake up.
Here’s your old tick tock clock,
Just like a heart, & I’m right
With ya, rockin’ soft & close.
La la la. You see, I have to
Sing quiet, ‘cause they’re takin’
Our ticket & hey, lettin’ us board.
Nobody suspects. Want your bottle?
Look at those lights, the whole
City a Christmas tree blinkin’
“so long” as we plunge,
Express cargo, into the
Clickety-clack clickety-clack
Of this safe moving dark

(Thanks to Rickie Lee)

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from Whispers of Arias (I), released December 24, 2012

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A resident of NY, Stephen Mead is a published outsider artist, writer, maker of short-collage films and sound-collage downloads. If you are at all interested please place his name in any search engine in conjunction with any of the above-mentioned genres for links to his multimedia work and merchandise. To order CDs via VISA or PayPal please visit stephenmeadmusic.weebly.com ... more

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