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Artist: Maddy Prior
Canonical path: /maddy-prior/the-cruel-mother
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The Cruel Mother
Read The Cruel Mother lyrics by Maddy Prior on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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The Cruel Mother
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Sweet juices, crushed from the fruit run over her lips,
Down her breasts, down her body, down between her hips.
Strong legs wrap around a tree, squeezes with her thighs.
Breathes life through roots with quiet sighs.
A child she bears beneath its shade with labour hard and long.
A moment's tenderness, a moment's passion, short and sweet the song.
She cradles, then buries it beneath the earth, under a drowning moon.
Nourishment, blood and bone, for the roots to find.
The cruel mother lives in the grove, dancing her life away,
Sweet as the juice on a soldier's lips on a summer's day.
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Maddy Prior performs "The Cruel Mother", 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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