BEHIND THE SONGS
Sorrow Turn Song
A child reaches for a light that keeps moving away.
Sorrow Turn Song
THE STORY
A child reaches for a light that keeps moving away. The men who might become guides are pictured as lighthouses, visible for a time but never dependable enough to settle the hunger. Later, the narrator's own child's first cry breaks something open and begins to mend it at once. The song turns from searching for presence to trying to offer it. Fire, roots and growing rivers give that change a living shape. Sorrow becomes song when an experience can be carried into care rather than simply repeated. The past stays near, but it no longer gets to decide everything the next generation receives.
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Gone before memory, a shadow in di dawn Mama voice a storm, paint him always wrong Mi small hand reaching, searching fi a flame Every man a lighthouse, but never stay di same Silence inna hallway, echo in mi chest Questions with no answer, youth cyan't rest Mi heart learn hunger, mi spirit learn fight But cracks let di daylight seep through night Scars become scripture, sorrow turn song From broken beginning, mi vow fi stand strong What mi never had, mi children receive Love everlasting, in dem mi believe First cry shatter mi, yet mend mi too At twenty-four unready, but di love was true Mi stumble through fire, mi carry di flame Even when di walls fall, mi still remain Life bring a queen, roots deep in di clay Together we plantin', new morning each day Daughters and sons, like rivers dem run Teach mi dat life never end, only begun Scars become scripture, sorrow turn song From broken beginning, mi vow fi stand strong What mi never had, mi children receive Love everlasting, in dem mi believe So when mi look back, di pain still near But it carve di path dat bring mi here Blessings blossom where darkness fall Mi children di reason, mi answer, mi call Scars become scripture, sorrow turn song From broken beginning, mi vow fi stand strong What mi never had, mi children receive Love everlasting, in dem mi believe
One way into the song. What you hear in it is yours.