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by Carly Simon


 
Embrace Me, You Child from No Secrets - 1972


At night in bed        
                               
I heard God whisper lullabyes

While Daddy next door
                   
Whistled whiskey 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 night time 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 night time 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 know
                   
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 night time streets sang "Daddy"
                                         
And God sang "Pray the devil doesn't get to you"

                   
AH................