[Verse 1]
A crow that's being dreamed by a child who's being carried through the forest
Sleeping, wondering in her twilight half-awareness where her mother went
I know that you died, but in this child's crow dream you survive
[Verse 2]
Beneath layers of magical symbolic wild animals
Inhabiting the edges of our fogged-over consciousnesses
Grasping for something to hold, something old
Like a name cut into a stone, or a bird that will make eye contact
[Verse 3]
That's where you live now, or at least that's where I hold you
And we're still here without you
Sleeping and the sun's coming up
In the ruins of our household, we wake up again
Coming back into this
[Verse 4]
Every day that comes, the echo of you living here gets quieter
Obscured by the loud wind of us now wailing and moaning for you
But also living, talking about school, making food, or just surviving and still containing love
Waking up again, the baby that you knew is now a kid
And when she looks at me with your eyes, the shape of almonds, I am stirred inside and reemerge
[Verse 5]
I go downstairs and turn on CBC and make some coffee
And boil two eggs, make two pieces of bread into toast
Open the window and give the child some clothes
And get us sitting at the table
Where your chair still sits across from me, watching
I stand up to put on music, our daughter sees and asks for mama's record
And she's staring at the speaker with this look of recognition
Putting it together that that's you singing
I'm sobbing and eating eggs again
You're a quiet echo on loud wind
A crow that's being dreamed by a child who's being carried through the forest
Sleeping, wondering in her twilight half-awareness where her mother went
I know that you died, but in this child's crow dream you survive
[Verse 2]
Beneath layers of magical symbolic wild animals
Inhabiting the edges of our fogged-over consciousnesses
Grasping for something to hold, something old
Like a name cut into a stone, or a bird that will make eye contact
[Verse 3]
That's where you live now, or at least that's where I hold you
And we're still here without you
Sleeping and the sun's coming up
In the ruins of our household, we wake up again
Coming back into this
[Verse 4]
Every day that comes, the echo of you living here gets quieter
Obscured by the loud wind of us now wailing and moaning for you
But also living, talking about school, making food, or just surviving and still containing love
Waking up again, the baby that you knew is now a kid
And when she looks at me with your eyes, the shape of almonds, I am stirred inside and reemerge
[Verse 5]
I go downstairs and turn on CBC and make some coffee
And boil two eggs, make two pieces of bread into toast
Open the window and give the child some clothes
And get us sitting at the table
Where your chair still sits across from me, watching
I stand up to put on music, our daughter sees and asks for mama's record
And she's staring at the speaker with this look of recognition
Putting it together that that's you singing
I'm sobbing and eating eggs again
You're a quiet echo on loud wind
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