
Date of issue: 12.02.2006
Record label: Nonesuch
Song language: English
The Story of the Mother |
«Although my child has died,» the mother said |
«That doesn’t make him permanently dead |
I must petition Death for his return» |
She made her way into the lands below |
There was a rosebush there, where things don’t grow |
It said, «You want your child? |
Give me your blood» |
And on a thorn |
Her flesh was torn |
That’s how rosebushes |
Grow down there |
So then she met this great big centipede |
Who wanted something from her, it decreed |
«You want to hold your child? |
Give me your arms» |
In lands beneath |
They grow strange teeth |
To tear your flesh |
More painfully |
But on she staggered and stumbled, for her baby’s sake |
And found herself beside a talking lake |
«You want to see your child? |
Give me your eyes» |
Which turned to pearls |
And sank in swirls |
Into liquid oblivion |
In the form of a spider |
Death hung there beside her |
And kissed her |
And made her his wife |
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Hail! Son of Heaven | 2006 |
And He Would Say | 2006 |
The Menu | 2006 |
At Madam Plum's | 2006 |
Shall We Sing a Duet? (Reprise) | 2006 |
The Little Matchstick Girl | 2006 |
Odious Odense | 2006 |
In the Almsyard | 2006 |
The Little Maiden of the Sea | 2006 |
In China, Said the Moon | 2006 |
The Ugly Little Duck | 2006 |
The Collar and the Garter | 2006 |
The Storks | 2006 |
Auntie Toothache | 2006 |
The Little Hebrew Girl | 2006 |
The Top and the Ball | 2006 |
The Red Shoes | 2006 |