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where songs come from

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describes what's it like to give a birth

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Where Songs Come From by Puppeteer C)2023

V1
Fingers on fire know how to fashion the clay
From pitch-black soil it coils up toward the day
Don't leave it there, don't even dare go anywhere
You are the father humming it out into the air
It's just a baby, it can't fly off on its own
Your flesh and blood packing its bags to leave our home
Will it know how to find its bread and bed
Will it still sound just like the voices in my head?

V2
Losing a limb, breaking your heart, you let it go
Singing your hymn, playing your part, in life's freak show
You loved it so, it was your favorite you swore
Now go forget it, where there is one there's many more
It's not enough to have fashioned something so rare
You'll make more copies, each one as lovely and fair
The right note, the right word, such torment
Sisyphus pushing out one after the other, each heaven-sent

MV
What can we do with all the loved ones whom we lost
And all the precious treasures we carelessly tossed
You'll need warm boots for trudging through the frost
What can we do when our living world's dying
Where do we find the courage to keep trying
If not a song to comfort our sighing, and help us get across

V3
Don't need another drug to help you cope
Another useless thing to sell, a bar of soap
No, something that travels, something you can take out
When you need a friend to trust when the others are in doubt
A thing of beauty, something that moves you to the core
A thing that shakes you up when you barely can give more
Something reminding you what you're living for
A timeless jewel to clutch while you stay poor

MV2
Sometimes we can only find words that others spoke
Or heartfelt necklaces from strung beads made of notes
To make it through a world that gave us less than it took
In summary, I don't know where our songs come from
I only know that when you least expect they come
And we the fish that get caught on their hook a few times before we die

credits

released October 24, 2023
all voices, guitars, and synths played by puppeteer
except
the great Sandy Beales (England) played bass (sandybeales.com)

song copyright with US Copyright Office, music performing and broadcasting rights managed by BMI, published digitally globally by CD Baby.

image is in the public domain. thank you for a copy from the Jewish Museum of New York. Image is of James Jacques Joseph Tissot's Songs of Joy (1896).

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puppeteer Chicago, Illinois

who is puppeteer? i grew up of American parents in Paris and London. i became a psychologist by career, remaining a music obsessive, writing songs when i could on bits of paper. raising a family prevented creative outlet of that nature. now, as a divorced skeleton, i spend time when i can writing and recording for this collection of songs, entitled Songs of Love and Earth. ... more

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