Songs about family

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Not a recording, but this is a song I wrote for my kid around when he was born.

Iā€™ve written about 3-4 others, but I donā€™t play an instrument. Iā€™ve been working with a songwriting consultant to try to get some of them set to music.

A Tender Night

Ā©2009 Michael Carley

You look at me to my surprise

And I see questions in your eyes

You wonder how if we love you so

Weā€™d bring you into this world of woe

Thereā€™s pain and doubt, so much to fear

And danger for all that we hold dear

I have no reply, try as I may

So this is all that I can say:

It was a tender night when we created you

The stars shone bright searching for the morning dew

All the world was right as we made three from two

On that tender night when we created you

My darling child, there are some things

That you must know; itā€™s why we sing

The world outsideā€™s not in our hands

Time goes by like grains of sand

All we can do is live our lives

And find some love ā€˜fore it goes by

For we may never make things right,

But we can seek our own respite

Like that tender night when we created you

(When) the stars shone bright reaching toward the morning dew

All the world was right as we made three from two

On that tender night when we created you

And so my child, go forth, be bold

And worry not what youā€™ve been told

Most things are just up to fate

Except the moments we create

Perhaps youā€™ll change all thatā€™s wrong

If not, then write your own childā€™s song

Inspired by one special night

When all the world was out of sight

Like that tender night when we created you

(When) the stars shone bright dancing in the morning dew

All the world was right as we made three from two

On that tender night when we created you

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Bridgemaven,

There is a local bar band that I used to go see that had this song on their regular playlist.
I need to go to one of their shows again!

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I canā€™t write songs, so I steal them and sing them (badly) to my kids.

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I donā€™t know how to write songs either, but I donā€™t let that stop me. Wrote my first decent poem recently when I was stuck in the hospital with a-fib.

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