[ar:Laura Marling]
[al:I Speak Because I Can]
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[00:09.58]They dance like sirens, hoping the sun would come out again
[00:19.52]And I was born in the fog of that day
[00:24.53]Can they hear a babe over all the faith,
[01:19.21][00:30.09]Or have they forgot what it was that they made
[00:38.12]Crawled out of the fog, found a river,
[00:41.82]Found a log and floated away
[00:47.91]Didn't think I'd be coming back this way
[00:53.59]But my feet are resolute;
[00:55.76]Found their root and brought me back to its place
[01:03.27]And on the hill where I was born,
[01:06.06]There is no rose but just a thorn;
[01:08.73]They cut it off each year and give it away
[01:13.99]But can they hear a babe after all these days,
[01:26.50]So left to wander blind, I find myself in cautious times,
[01:32.44]And they say, 'Love's labor is never lost; labor on to this very day.'
[01:47.22]So I walk into the fog, found a babe atop a log and all alone
[01:57.57]Took him under, took him on,
[02:00.82]Taught him everything about the world I'd come to know
[02:08.24]And he blames me for every wrong ever he made
[02:13.64]I am blamed for every wrong ever he made
[02:24.27][02:19.01]Forgive me I am only a maid
[02:29.90]But I can see a babe under all that blame
[02:35.11]And I am forgot from the day I am laid