{"id":219,"date":"2010-07-03T22:29:05","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T03:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lillilewis.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=219"},"modified":"2010-07-03T22:29:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T03:29:05","slug":"when-mama-cries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/lyrics\/when-mama-cries\/","title":{"rendered":"When Mama Cries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in the morning after mama cries<br \/>\n              hopelessness, helplessness<br \/>\n              and fear become her eyes<br \/>\n              the lonely and the weary<br \/>\n              seek refuge in the skies<br \/>\n              but they&#8217;re left unheard<br \/>\n              without reply<\/p>\n<p>and the children look around them<br \/>\n              and ask for us to see<br \/>\n              that another soul is dying <br \/>\n              of neglect and sanity<br \/>\n              so the children learn the hopelessness<br \/>\n              of a victim&#8217;s soft demise<br \/>\n              these lessons in the silences<br \/>\n              left after mama cries<\/p>\n<p>mama said to her lord on bended knee<br \/>\n              she&#8217;d relinquish all her joys for one last plea<br \/>\n              a noble sacrifice indeed but inadvertently<br \/>\n              she passed all that joylessness<br \/>\n              right down to me<\/p>\n<p>and now her spirit lies somewhere between<br \/>\n              her body and her soul<br \/>\n              but without her joys and passions,<br \/>\n              well she never will be whole<br \/>\n              and the children learn the universe <br \/>\n              requires such sacrifice<br \/>\n              repeating her same promises<br \/>\n              every time their mama cries<\/p>\n<p>let the circle be broken<br \/>\n              so our spirits can move on<br \/>\n              and let it be here and now<br \/>\n              before tomorrow is gone<br \/>\n              teach me faith, teach me a prayer<br \/>\n              show me your strength and love of life<br \/>\n              teach me hope, show me you care<br \/>\n              and maybe we&#8217;ll make it through this night<\/p>\n<p>now i believe that after all is said and done<br \/>\n              all the trials and the battles become one<br \/>\n              to find your withered soul <br \/>\n              and let it blossom in the sun,<br \/>\n              well that&#8217;s when you&#8217;ll know your life&#8217;s begun<\/p>\n<p>so children look around you<br \/>\n              at all there is to see<br \/>\n              know that the beauty of your presence<br \/>\n              in this world will set you free<br \/>\n              see that the children learn the universe<br \/>\n              gave them the gift of life<br \/>\n              and that these lessons become promises<br \/>\n              every time their mama cries<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in the morning after mama cries hopelessness, helplessness and fear become her eyes the lonely and the weary seek refuge in the skies but they&#8217;re left unheard without reply and the children look around them and ask for us to see that another soul is dying of neglect and sanity so the children learn the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}