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Embrace Me, You Child

This version of Embrace Me, You Child was released by Carly Simon in 1972.

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At night I heard God whisper lullabyes
While Daddy next door whistled whisky 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 nightime 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

Then one night Daddy died and went to Heaven
And God came down to earth and slipped away
I pretended not to notice 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

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The lyrics to Embrace Me, You Child are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Carly Simon in 1972. Elements of the lyrics to Embrace Me, You Child are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Carly Simon and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Embrace Me, You Child back when it was created.

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