Lyric Embrace Me You Child

(Carly Simon)

At night I heard God whisper lullabyes
While Daddy next door whistled whisky tunes
And sometimes when I wanted, they would harmonize
There was nothing those two couldn t do

Embrace me you child, you re a child of mine
And I m leaving everything I am to you
Go chase the wild and nightime streets sang Daddy
And God sang, Pray the devil doesn t get to youI thought together they must sing the moon away
I thought that they must know each other well
For the magic that they made, when they played
Wasn t lost between their Heaven and their Hell

Then one night Daddy died and went to Heaven
And God came down to earth and slipped away
I pretended not to notice I d been abandoned
But no-one sang the night into the day
And later night time songs came back again
But the singers don t compare with those I knew
And I never figured out where God and Daddy went
But there was nothing those two couldn t do