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Child Of God

from The Pleasure Of Being Sad by Get Set Go

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Recorded at Mike TV's home studio in Austin, TX.

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Once when I was a boy
Of about 9 or 10
I fell in love with the girl
who lived next door.

And every day after school
I would wait by our fence
And we would play til her parents
got home.

And she would sing this song

It still gives me shivers.

Mommy doesn't love me
And daddy doesn't want me.
But I'm a child of God.

There used to be / this kindly old man
Who'd make us hot cocoa
While we sat in his lap.

And he made her sing, the song that she sang
The song that I still hear every day.

He used to stroke her face
While she— sang this song.

One autumn day, she asked me to wait
She asked me to meet her at the top of the hill
And so I went, hoping to spend
Some time with the girl that I loved.

But she never showed, and I know that I know that I had failed her.
Oh she never arrived, for this was the day that she—died.

Every day for the year that we lived in that house
I would her singing in the middle of the night.

I know that I should have been very afraid
But I love the sound of her voice.

And she would sing to me
Now I've be set free,
Here's my song, I sing for you.

Mommy didn't love me.
Daddy didn't want me.
But I'm a child of God.

Mommy doesn't love me
And daddy doesn't want me.
But I'm a child of God.

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from The Pleasure Of Being Sad, released October 21, 2014
Written, performed, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Mike TV.

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