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Artist: Maddy Prior
Canonical path: /maddy-prior/mater-dolorosa
Related lyric paths: 6
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Mater Dolorosa
Read Mater Dolorosa lyrics by Maddy Prior on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Mater Dolorosa
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Something broke your concentration
So many chores, so short a day
Disbelief, then realisation
The children only went to play
Turned your back for just a moment
Hardly careless on your part
Chilling sound, childless silence
Clamps cold steel around your heart
Chorus:
Stone-cold grief
Forgiving as a wall
Makes us weep with you
Makes us weep for you
Weep for us all
Your sacrifice
Made for us all
Mothers who've known these moments
Of the nightmare we all dread
Reach out to you in your sorrow
Silently what can be said
Chorus
Something broke your concentration
So many chores, so short a day
Disbelief, then realisation
The children only went to play
Chorus.
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Maddy Prior performs "Mater Dolorosa", and this lyric page sits inside the Maddy Prior catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to After The Death and Autumn: Marigold/Harvest Home with a short reason for opening each page next.
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