I'd read Cormac McCarthy's harrowing post-apocalyptic book 'The Road'. After seeing the movie, I felt compelled to write a lyric.
Music/guitar: Billy Playle
Vocals: Ankari Iresdel
Lyric & melody: Donna Devine
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Mommy and You (Lullaby For an Embryo after the Apocalypse)
Chorus
Lullabye loo
Lullabye loo
None left to remember
But mommy and you
V1
The rivers and valleys
Have vanished like dreams
No deer on the mountains
No fish in the streams
Chorus
Goneabye gone
Goneabye gone
All lost to the ashes
Are moonrise and dawn
V2
We all owed a debt
And reprisal was fast
The promise of rainbows
Was broken at last
Chorus
Deepabye deep
Deepabye deep
In the last of pure water
You’ll drift now to sleep
V3
I’m holding a picture
Of daddy and me
Pressed to my belly
I hope you can see
Chorus
Hushabye loo
Hushabye loo
None left to remember
But mommy and you
Instrumental solo
Chorus
Lullabye loo
Lullabye loo
None left to remember
But mommy and you
© 2010 Donna Devine
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