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Weeping Mother's Song

from Leave Me Be by Lila Blue

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lyrics

So if by the time you wake up
I am gone
Don’t try to find a reason
Just move on

I know you couldn’t handle the truth
So I’ve decided to stop taking up the space
That I took up in you

The pressure keeps on building in my head
So I try to focus on the hands and words
Pulling me oh pulling me, to the bed frame
And then trapping me in like a
Cage for a bird
Then I start to feel empty
So you fill me up
‘cause I cannot stand feeling hollow
But I don’t need to be in love

So if by the time you wake up
I am gone
Don’t try to find a reason
Just move on

I know you couldn’t handle the truth
So I’ve decided to stop taking up the space
That I took up in you

Our son screams for you
But you are stuck in a trance
How could I have been so stupid to expect to
Steal the dancer away from the dance
one, two, three, four, five, six

So you try to fill me up
With words and conversation
Cacophonic slurs
That mean something to you

But then you leave and I am left here
To clean them all up
And they stick to my skin
And remind me of you

But what if by the time we wake up
He has grown
Into a man who lives life filling up
Girls who feel alone
Every lullaby and vulnerable night
Will be a weeping mother’s song

I thought that if I loved enough
What I loved would be good
I guess I never could expect him
To not take up the same space
Where you stood

I thought that if I loved enough
What I loved would be good
I guess I never could expect him
To not take up the same space
Where you stood

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from Leave Me Be, released April 24, 2020

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Lila Blue New York, New York

LILA BLUE (they/she) is a 23 year old non-binary and queer folk musician, singer-songwriter, playwright and performer based out of Brooklyn. Their projects navigate themes of grief, joy, intergenerational trauma, rage, queerness and collisions with divine and haunted spirits, stemming from their own intuitive practices. They've released 3 LP’s, 2 EP’s, with LP 4, SWEET PEA, arriving 11/10/23 ... more

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