Name: The Room Where I Was Born
Duration: P00H04M42S
Description: For 50/90 2017 (fifty songs in ninety days)

The Room Where I Was Born

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The roly-poly baby mayor leads the big parade
With a marching band and ticker tape
All the chords are major and the majorettes' batons
Catch the sunlight as they toss them in the air and march along
It never rains
It never rains
How could it when the baby mayor leads the big parade?

In the room where I was born
Comets fell, oceans rose
Soft sprouts cracked the concrete
My parents woke, dry-mouthed and sore
Folded me up and shut the door
To the room where I was born

Mommy pushes baby in the stroller up the hill
But who will push Mommy? Don't worry, Daddy will!
Can you see the mayor out there, confetti raining down?
All chubby-cheeked and perfect, waving to the town
She never cries
She never cries
Why should she when her parents never fight or shout or lie?

In the room where I was born
A crow flew in to cut the cord
Blood dripped down into the snow
My parents watched it, holding hands in the cold
Hope squirmed and scrabbled on the floor
In the room where I was born

In the room where I was born
Stars raced by, planets bloomed
My mother held me, my father said
I'll love you both until I'm dead
Looked in her eyes, looked at the door
Of the room where I was born
The room where I was born

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released August 5, 2017

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