they are grown now the little fingers that grabbed the straggled hair covering your arms that I cradled while you sucked and puckered oozing milk like blood filling your nervous system with mine eyes content to rest on all the…
I ache with love sometimes for music, touch, nourishment; and I long to know the source of the lack of longing and aching. I need to be by the water to cool the heat of the longing so it can…
I feel like a mother when I cut the crust off your sandwich bread careful to leave enough to hold some carefully planned nutrition My heart is full when we talk together about spirit curled under your feathery purple and…
©2004/©2008 Servethrusong (ASCAP) Lyrics & Music by Debra L. Alt [mp3j track="http://www.debrasong.com/samples/in-broad-daylight/13-the-love-and-long-run-sample.mp3" title="sample"] What she saw in him was an answer He found himself in her eyes Too young to know any better They launched and promised their lives With…
©1999 D. Alt/©2008 Servethrusong (ASCAP) Lyrics & Music by Debra L. Alt [mp3j track="http://www.debrasong.com/samples/a-spirited-mother/08_sample.mp3"] The lady is a wildflower, sweeter than a moment in June Her past may cast a shadow, but only if you find it too soon She's…
(a.k.a. Phoebe's Song) ©2005 D. Alt/©2008 Servethrusong (ASCAP) Lyrics & Music by Debra L. Alt [mp3j track="http://www.debrasong.com/samples/in-broad-daylight/11_sample.mp3"] It rained that fateful day out on the shore Then came the call that changed our lives forever more Some old dream I'd…
©2005 D. Alt/©2008 Servethrusong (ASCAP) Lyrics by Debra L. Alt & Steve Lazrove, Music by Debra L. Alt [mp3j track="http://www.debrasong.com/samples/in-broad-daylight/08_sample.mp3"] Boundin' down Col A c c a r I u s, I see you break free and fly Je dis…
©1999 Chip DeGaard & Debra Alt/©2008 Servethrusong (ASCAP) Lyrics by Debra L. Alt & Steve Lazrove, Music by Chip Degaard & Debra L. Alt [mp3j track="http://www.debrasong.com/samples/in-broad-daylight/06_sample.mp3"] I was curled up on the couch and I was feelin' fine At a…
©2008 Servethrusong (ASCAP) Lyrics & Music by Debra L. Alt [mp3j track="http://www.debrasong.com/samples/in-broad-daylight/05_sample.mp3"] My pregnant body showed its age As I wrote to you on flowered pages Long after you were born you nursed On top of pillows you quenched your…
©2007 D. Alt/©2008 Servethrusong (ASCAP) Lyrics by Debra L. Alt, Music by Debra L. Alt & Paul Scialabba [mp3j track="http://www.debrasong.com/samples/each-moment-were-alive/04_sample.mp3"] How can I tell you that I want to go now when I cannot find the words The other kids…