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Mother and Child

from Passion Fashion by GuidoWorld

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Orchestrally this song is scaled down a bit to expose the stark emotional reality of both mother and child.

While some children have a childhood, in other cases it seems that childhoods have the child. Yet, no matter how obtrusive or restrictive one's childhood, what really matters is how one experiences childhood. What one experiences is always secondary to how one processes and internalizes events and their significance.

The line between victim and perpetrator of abuse is often very thin. At what age does one's being abused in childhood stop being an excuse or a reason for compassion and sympathy? At what point does their acting out their own hurt through violence and rage become unforgivable and they become the perpetrator?

Day after day the scene depicted in the song occurs, with both mother and child hurting and feeling both helpless and justified in their anger, rage and sense of victimhood.

And another day journeys by
With mother and child in their own little worlds
Crying, dying, crying

lyrics

Mother and Child 3/24/75

Child in tears flayed body bruised black and blue
Oblivious to all but his pain
Teared eyes see life so strange
His intense world of hate

“Oh God”, cried mother realizing what she’d done
Tormented so by her lack of control
Her body still bears the scars of her father’s sickness

“Oh, if he wouldn’t cry so”
“If he weren’t so slow”
If he’d do what he was told just obey”

He now stares into the sky
Absorbed in thoughts of hate/love
How he hates her, how he fears her
Forced like a dog to love its owner

“Help, help” she cries inside
“Oh God, give me the strength to survive”
“So this ugly scene will one day end”

And another day journeys by
With mother and child in their own little worlds
Crying, dying, crying

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from Passion Fashion, released February 11, 2017
Vocals Jim Guido
Guitar Jim Guido

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