Hero's Lullaby from Hero's Lullaby by Daniel Blue

This is one of the first songs that comes to me. I am alone in a warehouse I had rented in Tacoma Wa. Its after midnight in June, 2007 and I'm feeling very lonely for choosing to be a starving artist in a working class city and filled with grief for the loss of my mother who had died 5 years previous on that very night. At this point in my life I see myself as a poet and a fashion designer, but for the moment I'm just a child in a desperate city, alone and with one to call and ask for encouragement or direction. Now comes fear. I'm starting to get the creeps and jumping at shadows and phantoms (there are a lot of dark corners in this old trash heap). This winds up to a fever pitch wherein I'm throwing myself around the cavernous spaces, rearranging furniture and cleaning and running from my own thoughts. Suddenly I'm filled with a feeling of serenity as I see an old dust covered pleather guitar cover in the corner and pretty much rip it open and claw at the strings. I have no idea how to play the guitar but I know what music sounds like and so I turn the knobs on the thing until it sounds good when all the strings play together. Its missing some parts and I have no clue what I'm even singing about but I've nothing else to combat the looming death in the empty places of that night and somehow filling my enclave with sound seems to transform the doom. I sang this lullaby to myself over an over again, really believing that I was not alone that whomever was singing "i am here my son" was using my own voice to sing it to me. I demand the heavens offering me this song also allow me to remember this night and this song and be able to someday share it and the peace it brought me in that moment.

Tracklist

1.	Hero's Lullaby	7:53

Lyrics

my dear mother died when I was just a boy
I held her in anger as she left me a stranger
a bastard without gain employ
I hid in the basement of the house I was raised in
and there I probably would have died
to join her in the graveyard a coward forever
but a voice came to me in the night
and oh just to hear it replenished my spirit

it said I am here my son
with you I am always
do not fear my son
for you were loved
before you were made

a tap on my shoulder alone in the dark
and I turn to see the line that formed me
somewhere my ancestors are alive in their hearts
and they smile at me with their ghost white teeth
they tell me I'm doing alright
that the world may be cruel to me
but it wont find a fool in me
I tell them I'm afraid to fight
they laugh at my fear
and whisper in my ear

inform your foes to run
what weapon have they
against the already slain
there's rust for swords and guns
but you will not fall
to bullet or blade

for I am here my son
with you I am always
do not fear my son
for you were loved
before you were made

Credits

from Hero's Lullaby, released April 16, 2014
Written and performed by Daniel Blue
Recorded with Graig Markel at Recovery Room Studios, Seattle Wa
Artwork by Tim Manthey- cloudnectar.blogspot.com

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