Meghann Clancy: Words, words, words

Baby of the Storm

I wish the first sound you heard was laughter

But the thunder overhead rumbled to your core

You were born amid panic, disaster

Forces of nature at war

I wish the first thing you felt was happiness

But there was fear and sadness all around

You should be lying in a cradle in the nursery

Not on a make-shift bed amongst rubble on the ground

But all you need to know

Is that I am here to comfort you and keep you warm

And all I want is to shelter you

My baby of the storm

I wish the first face you saw was your father's

His hair was dark and his eyes were kind

But I don't even have a photograph to show you

He lives now only in my mind

I wish the first thing you knew was security

You'd want for nothing and your needs were all fulfilled

But the life I planned has been swept away

I don't know what future we have left to build

But all you need to know

Is that I am here to comfort you and keep you warm

And all I want is to shelter you

My baby of the storm

Darkness may be all around in this unending night

But you cast a light, you shine so bright

Yeah you cast a light, you shine so bright

And all you need to know

Is that I am here to comfort you and keep you warm

And all I want is to shelter you

My baby of the storm

It wasn't meant to be this way

It wasn't meant to be this way.