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18 Dec 23 - 05:09 PM (#4193850) Subject: Lyr Add: Gaia's Lullaby (Lael Whitehead) From: Joe Offer 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 |