Bronwen Williams

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Background

This is a rather haunting ballad that truly wrote itself. My daughter had asked for a ghost song, and I was thinking about what existence there might be after death. I woke up in the middle of the night with the song in my head and wrote it down. The next morning I was surprised to find it in my journal. The song has vocal, harmony vocal, acoustic guitars, and accordion.

I Took My Life

I took my life the other day
I gave it up threw it away
Looking for some silence and relief
I left my children motherless
Questioning my selfishness
Their minds forever turned by disbelief

And now I stand here helplessly
Watching them they can't see me
This is not the silence that I sought
I catch their tears up as they fall
I drive their dreams into the hall
Choking on the damage I have wrought

My daughter's wise my son is strong
They have no choice they must go on
What I might have offered them is lost
To touch them with my fingertips
To brush their foreheads with a kiss
To hold them close I could not see the cost

There is a place that's cold and still
It waits for you just take the pills
Then you too can watch the others dance
You can't return or change your mind
You will have left it all behind
The pain the hope the sadness and the chance

©1998 Bronwen Williams