4th Day Prayer

I was the Queen of Westmount Park It was all mine after dark Old willow tree, it was my throne 'Til I, 'til I went home Father used me like a wife Mother turned the blindest eye Stole my body, spirit, pride He did, he did each night One for the hate that loops and loops Two for the poison at the roots Three for the children breaking through Four for the day we're standing in the sun "These are the best years of your life" If I'd believed it, I'd have died Something told me that they lied Oh I, oh I survived Left home, I was just a child Slept in the graveyard, end of the Mile When the sun came up and found my skin I rose, I rose again One for the hate that loops and loops Two for the poison at the roots Three for the children breaking through Four for the day we're standing in the sun Slip streams and fever dreams Do you see what I can't see? Tell me, tell me, tell me I want to understand From the coast of Africa To the hills of Grenada To the cold of Montreal That whip, that whip still falls One for the hate that loops and loops Two for the poison at the roots Three for the children breaking through Four for the day we're standing in the sun One for the hate that loops and loops Two for the poison at the roots Three for the children breaking through Four for the day- One for the hate that loops and loops Two for the poison at the roots Three for the children breaking through Four for the day-