Lyr Add: Gaia's Lullaby (Lael Whitehead)

Subject: Lyr Add: Gaia's Lullaby (Lael Whitehead)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Dec 23 - 05:09 PM

GAIA'S LULLABY
Words and Music by Lael Whitehead

In this song, Gaia, the Great Mother or Earth Spirit, sings to the child she bears anew each midwinter. This "child of earth" is the spark of life that will wake nature from its barren winter sleep. Gaia grieves that the "dark world" of human civilzation no longer remembers how to cherish her gift of life.
lyrics
In the bleak heart of winter when the icy wind made moan
And the world lay a-dying beneath a sky of stone
The Mother bore her Child as midnight drew nigh
And she sang to her baby a soft lullaby

She sang though the green wood lay butchered and waste
Thought her meadows and groves were all gone without trace
She sang though the sea lay plundered and bare
Though her heart was so heavy with longing and care

Lullay my dear one, my tiny child of earth
How fragile, how lovely this moment of thy birth
Are there none to praise your coming, to guard your tender light?
None to shelter your garden from ravage and blight?

So the Mother sang softly as the midnight hour passed by
And she grieved for the dark world that knew not how to thrive
That knew not how to love this gift she freely gave
Or to tend its frail blooming in field and wood and wave

Lullay my dear one, my little flame of earth
\Who will watch o'er your growing, and cherish your worth?
Lullay my darling, my little child of Time,
So precious, so fleeting, this blossom of mine

https://jaiya.bandcamp.com/track/gaias-lullaby


credits
from Firedance: Songs for Winter Solstice, released December 21, 2003