DamnLyrics - The center provides all the lyrics

The Child We Lost 1963 - La Dispute



     
Page format: Left Center Right
Direct link:
BB code:
Embed:

The Child We Lost 1963 Lyrics


There were shadows in the bedroom
Where the light got thrown by the lamp on the nightstand
On your mother's side, after midnight, still
You can see it all
You can see it all
And the closet in the corner
On the far back shelf with the keepsakes, she hid
That box there full of letters of regret
By the pictures of the kidsYou get faint recollections of your mother's sigh, countryside drive
And the landscape seen from the window of the backseat with some flowers in a basketThat afternoon after school you and your older sisters
Found your parents in the kitchen at the table
Father lifting off the lid of the boxAnd a hush fell over everything like a funeral prayer
A reverence, ancestral, heavy in the airThough you didn't understand what it meant
That they never said her name aloud around you
Even sitting at the table with her things they'd kept
You recall faintly cards, tiny clothes, and the smell of the paint in the upstairs bedroom
Until then you didn't know that's what the box had heldYour parents tiptoeing slowly around always speaking in codeNo, they never said her name aloud around you
Only told you it was perfect where your sister went

And you didn't understand why it hurt them so much then that she'd come and left so soon
Could only guess inside your head at what a "stillbirth" meant
Only knew that mother weptYou watched while father held her, said "Some things come but can't stay here."
You saw a brightness. Like a light through your eyes closed tight then she tumbled away.From here, some place
To remain in the nighttime shadows she made
To be an absence in mom, a sadness hanging over her
Like some pentacostal flame, drifting on and off
She was "Sister," only whispered.
Sometimes "Her" or
"The Child We Lost."You were visions
A vagueness, a faded image
You were visionsYou were a flame lit that burned out twice as brightly as the rest of us did
When you left, you were light, then you tumbled awayThere are shadows that fall still here at a certain angle
In the bedroom on the nightstand by your mother's side
From the light left on thereThere's the box in the closet, all the things kept
And the landscape where she left
Flowers on the grave, marble where they etched that name
And mother cried the whole way homeBut she never said it once out loud
On the way back home from where you thought they meant
When they said where sister wentAfter grandpa got hospice sick and he couldn't fall sleep
They wheeled his stretcher bed beside her at night
And I saw the lightOn the day that he died
By their bed in grandma's eyes
While us grandkids said our goodbyesShe said "don't cry"
Somewhere he holds her
Said a name I didn't recognize
And the light with all the shadows combined

Enjoy the lyrics !!!
La Dispute, formed in 2004, is five close friends from Grand Rapids, Michigan with a firm passion for the concept of music and art as a medium for making new friends. As a result, La Dispute makes (or strives to make) music that is both artistically, technically, and emotionally engaging in hopes of establishing legitimate connections with any and all interested people, while encouraging dialogue between those people and themselves about things in life that truly matter and that truly last. La Dispute also carries a firm passion for the relevance of a live show, both for the bands involved and for the people in attendance, and will go to the grave believing that the environment created when strangers come together despite their differences to celebrate one important thing is invaluable and should not under any circumstances be taken for granted.
Their style combines elements of post-hardcore and screamo in a very experimental way to something that can hardly be put into a single genre.

Releases:
Vancouver(2006),
Untitled 7" (2008)
Here, Hear (2008, released in a mini-disc format)
Here, Hear II (2008, released as a 7")
Here, Hear III (2009, released as a digital dowload)
Searching for a Pulse/the Worth of the World Split with Touché Amoré (2010, released as a 7")
Never Come Undone Split with Koji (2011)

Their first LP,Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair, was released November 11, 2008. The album was recorded at Studiotte in Grand Rapids by Joel and Troy Otte.

In late 2011 they released their second LP called Wildlife which has also been added as an accompaniment to the #224 issue of the german "Visions" music magazine.

User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.

View All

La Dispute