Embrace Me, You Child
At night in bed I heard god whisper lullabyes .
While daddy next door whistled whisky tunes
And sometimes when I wanted, they would harmonize
There was nothing those two couldn't do
Embrace me you child, you're a child of mine
And I'm leaving everything I am to you
Go chase the wild and nightime streets sang daddy
And god sang, pray the devil doesn't get to you
I thought together they must sing the moon away
I thought that they must know each other well
For the magic that they made, when they played
Wasn't lost between their heaven and their hell
Embrace me you child, you're a child of mine
And I'm leaving everything I am to you
Go chase the wild and nightime streets sang daddy
And god sang, pray the devil doesn't get to you
Then one night daddy died and went to heaven
And god came down to earth and slipped away
I pretended not to notice I'd been abandoned
But no-one sang the night into the day
And later night time songs came back again
But the singers don't compare with those I knew
And I never figured out where god and daddy went
But there was nothing those two couldn't do
Embrace me you child, you're a child of mine
And I'm leaving everything I am to you
Go chase the wild and nighttime streets sang daddy
And god sang, pray the devil doesn't get to you
While daddy next door whistled whisky tunes
And sometimes when I wanted, they would harmonize
There was nothing those two couldn't do
Embrace me you child, you're a child of mine
And I'm leaving everything I am to you
Go chase the wild and nightime streets sang daddy
And god sang, pray the devil doesn't get to you
I thought together they must sing the moon away
I thought that they must know each other well
For the magic that they made, when they played
Wasn't lost between their heaven and their hell
Embrace me you child, you're a child of mine
And I'm leaving everything I am to you
Go chase the wild and nightime streets sang daddy
And god sang, pray the devil doesn't get to you
Then one night daddy died and went to heaven
And god came down to earth and slipped away
I pretended not to notice I'd been abandoned
But no-one sang the night into the day
And later night time songs came back again
But the singers don't compare with those I knew
And I never figured out where god and daddy went
But there was nothing those two couldn't do
Embrace me you child, you're a child of mine
And I'm leaving everything I am to you
Go chase the wild and nighttime streets sang daddy
And god sang, pray the devil doesn't get to you
Credits
Writer(s): Carly E. Simon
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- Like a River (Live At Grand Central, New York, NY - April 2, 1995)
- Why
- Touched By The Sun (Live At Grand Central - 1995)
- The Studio Album Collection 1971-1983
- Showdown
- Songs From The Trees (A Musical Memoir Collection)
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