Song For Our Daughter
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Album Song For Our Daughter
Song For Our Daughter by Laura Marling
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From Editors' Notes on Apple Music:
“This song is kind of the main event, in my mind. I actually wrote it around the time of the Trayvon Martin [shooting in 2012]. All these young kids being unarmed and shot in America. And obviously that’s nothing to do with my daughter, or the figurative daughter...
Song For Our Daughter Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Though they may want you to tread in their trail
Only to see if the path they set fails
Though they may want you to take off your clothes
Whatever they think that the action exposed
With your clothes on the floor
Taking advice from some old balding bore
You'll ask yourself, "Did I want this at all?"
[Chorus]
Do you remember what I said?
The book I left by your bed
The words that some survivor read
[Verse 2]
Lately I've been thinking about our daughter growing old
All of the bullshit that she might be told
There's blood on the floor
Maybe now you'll believe her for sure
[Chorus]
She remembers what I said
The book I left by her bed
The words that some survivor read
[Verse 3]
Though they may take you for all you had left
You won't be forgotten for what you had not done yet
So you wished for a kiss from God
And you mourned in your childish loss
Innocence gone but it's not forgot
You'll get your way through it somehow
[Chorus]
You remember what I said
The book you left by your bed
The words that will outlive the dead
Song For Our Daughter Q&A
Who wrote Song For Our Daughter's ?
Song For Our Daughter was written by Laura Marling.
Who produced Song For Our Daughter's ?
Song For Our Daughter was produced by Ethan Johns & Laura Marling.
When did Laura Marling release Song For Our Daughter?
Laura Marling released Song For Our Daughter on Fri Apr 10 2020.
What did Laura Marling say about "Song For Our Daughter"?
It came out pretty quickly – the good ones always do; they just fall out. My boyfriend, who lives with me, is also a musician and was playing this chord sequence over and over. Eventually I absorbed it by proximity and when I wrote the song, I realised that I’d stolen his chord sequence. So he’s got...
What have the artists said about the song?
The [album] title comes from the central song on the album and it’s likely somewhat an homage to Letter to My Daughter, the Maya Angelou book, which is a series of essays to a fictional daughter, or to a kind of a wide, broad idea of a daughter; a younger generation of women. And I wrote that song [...