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A song about family loss with questions about getting through the grief.

lyrics

How did you manage to even laugh?
Cook a dinner, sing a song, teach a class?
With no protective armor or leaden shield
On this unfamiliar family battlefield

Day after Christmas, sixty five
Mustang full of boys on a little joy ride
If you could travel back in time you’d never let him leave
Spent seventy years learning how a mother grieves

CHORUS:
Letting go getting past
No one told you how long this would last
An uphill battle, the fall back down
He was your hidden scar
til the day you went home
The hole left in your heart
til the day you went home

As I lay my hands on your tired feet
I’m reminded at some point we’re all set free
From this aching pain life accumulates
and the knowledge you have that no one escapes
CHORUS

BRIDGE
You were our rock. Where did you find the will?
Defined by the details of that night so still
A family gets what a family needs, held together by a string of rosary beads 
CHORUS

credits

from Particles to Pearls, track released June 3, 2022
Music & Lyrics by Mike Ward

Mike Ward- Lead Vocals, Harmonies, and Acoustic Guitar
David Roof- Bass & Piano

Lucy Little- Violin

Produced, Engineered and Mixed by David Roof
Recorded at Rooftop Recordings, Grand Blanc, MI

Mastered by Jim Kissling at Jim Kissling Mastering, Ferndale, MI

Cover Art by Dave Toennies, Ton-Yes Design, Hamtramck, MI

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mike ward Detroit, Michigan

Lyrically-centric, vocally-charged folk songs. Those are what singer-songwriter Mike Ward loves to create. Living in Detroit, Mike grew up listening to Irish music. Influences are Jason Isbell, Bruce Springsteen and John Prine. His writing echoes along empty sidewalks, on country backroads, in family portraits, and in the thin lines between joy and tragedy, love and loss, past, present and future. ... more

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