Gently Goes the Parent's Hand

BLUE FAIRY: Don't be so quick to anger
Or that's all he'll remember
Don't rule his life with fear
Or when you speak that's all he'll ever hear

You want a melody of you
To be sweet and loving and true
When you're gone then the memory of you
Will be warm as quilting, gently hued

Gently went the hand that carved the wood
Gently went the heart that wished him
Careful now, Geppetto, that fatherhood
Not be the thing that banished him

GEPPETTO: If only the boy would listen
Have some good sense in him
And maybe a strong word or two
Might make him grow as he ought to do

(All I want is for him to grow up to be a good, decent man)
(To be brave, true and kind)
(Is that wrong of me to want that?)
(BLUE FAIRY: No, it isn't. You and every other parent out there)
(GEPPETTO: Then why don't the children just listen to us?)

BLUE FAIRY: Gently goes the best of childhoods
If gently goes the parent's hand
Gently then the child will go where they should
Gently does the child then understand

As brief as a comma
The breath between memory and trauma

GEPPETTO & BLUE FAIRY: Gently goes the best of childhoods
If gently goes the parent's hand
Gently then the child will go where they should
Gently does the child then understand

BLUE FAIRY: Gently one day
GEPPETTO & BLUE FAIRY: They'll understand