Name: Like Clay
Duration: P00H06M03S
Description: for CT: one of my greatest teachers

Like Clay

from Mothers & Daughters by Norma Jean Haynes (Norma Dream)

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Show me a heart
That is more than dust and stars
And I will be there
Wherever you are

Walking in the woods, I remember you
Standing with your straight back, like a grey goose
You shape your vessels out of clay
Who will love you to your veins?

But I could not hold onto you
Noone's asking me to
You must be on your way
I see your hands move planets in space

And I could never call you mother
Sister, or lover
Nothing fits, nothing stays
All the names slough off of you
Like dirt, like clay

Show me a hand that has know the circles well
That's known the cool of heaven,
and the heat of hell

First we fell in love, then it's back to work
Showed you to the forest, you showed me dirt
And everything that's buried there
My intuition and your care

Refrain

Shiver in the clay and a knock at the door
Who's knocking now, what could it be for
Show me

Show me where you've gone,
I swear I'll never follow you
15 years left on this planet
What are you going to do?

Someone said they saw you where you came from
Sitting on the ground, yes, beating your drum
To soothe your sleepy grandchildren
You would give your heartbeat to them

Refrain

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from Mothers & Daughters, released June 4, 2021
Composed and performed by Norma Jean Haynes

Chris Haynes- Piano
Anand Nayak- Bass

Engineered by Judy Elliot-Brown at the Institute for the Musical Arts, Goshen MA

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Norma Dream/Norma Jean Haynes
Northampton, Massachusetts

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