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Artist: Vashti Bunyan
Canonical path: /vashti-bunyan/mother
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Mother
Read Mother lyrics by Vashti Bunyan on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Mother
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My mother would dance sometimes
Believing herself alone
But through a slightly open door
I would watch her as she turned
Turned round, round,
Briefly unbound
My mother played and sang sometimes
Believing herself alone
But through a slightly open door
I could see her face upturned
Songs long learned
So long untuned
I was her only audience
She believes herself alone
My applause should have been rapturous
But I close the door
And turned, turned away
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Vashti Bunyan performs "Mother", and this lyric page sits inside the Vashti Bunyan catalog on LyroVerse.
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