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Artist: Michelle Shocked
Canonical path: /michelle-shocked/stillborn
Related lyric paths: 6
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Stillborn
Read Stillborn lyrics by Michelle Shocked on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Stillborn
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Midnight and Yoland has a long walk home
Midwiving a hard labor the baby was stillborn
Still the mother asks to hold the child that never cries
Rocks it gently softly keening a plaintive lullabye
Hush!
Yolanda walks along the river road
Humming softly "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?"
The sky has never shined so bright, the night so dry and clear
Crickets and cicadas consolations in the air
Yolanda's husband wakes the children and dresses them for school
"Your mother was up late last night, I've packed your lunch for you"
So the house lies silent and they all will be home soon
By the time she rises in the early afternoon
Then once again Yolanda walks along the river road
Where the live oaks are dying, pines are crying, sits beneath a willow
Prying from that tender trunk a dry cicada shell
Crushes it in her fist as the sound begins to swell
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Michelle Shocked performs "Stillborn", and this lyric page sits inside the Michelle Shocked catalog on LyroVerse.
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