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When Your Mother Grieves

from Make It Mine by Heather Pierson

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Painted desert baby, not so much a baby these days
Dancing among the lizards, changing your appearance in a thousand ways
In the world’s largest sandbox, your mother looks on
Squinting into the sun, pining away for something that’s already gone

And the days tumble by, long and warm and dry like the leaves
And the nights bring the cold and the longing for home
And the tears that she cries when your mother grieves

“Where is my family?” – your little thoughts float on the breeze
Your father’s off using his hands to try and bring home a living that he hopes will please
But keeping her vigil like the coyotes you hear in your dreams
Your mother bites her lip and she paces and she stops to look at you and her face just beams

She says, “We’re on the ocean and I’m the ship that has sailed you
Away to where things are tranquil and clean
But I’m too far from one shore and I can barely see the other
And I’m stuck somewhere in between”

And the days tumble by, long and warm and dry like the leaves
And the nights bring the cold and the longing for home
And the tears that she cries when your mother grieves

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from Make It Mine, released October 26, 2010
Heather Pierson - vocal, piano, keyboards

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