I wrote this in 1994 while working as an LVN in a Neo Natal Intensive Care Unit working with a LOT of drug babies. This is sung from the perspective of the fetus.


https://suno.com/s/gjGkbhzCiPbzHCoc


V1
Good morning, you up there
Can you hear me way down here?
What’s for breakfast, what’s for lunch?
A cigarette first, of course.

Careful now, it’s me in here
Do you know the man upstairs
Will he be there when I
arrive?

Chorus
Music under water sounds so beautiful.
Is that you talking to me?
Is that my father or will his name escape you?
Are you escaping now?
Are you escaping now?

V2
I hear your heart, do you hear mine?
Thanks to you I’m feeling fine.
A little faster than I’d expect
but so is yours.

v3
Tell me now, when I arrive
will I be able to survive?
What you need, I need like you
will you feed me too?

Music under water sounds so beautiful.
Are you singing this song to me?
What's that I feel, does the name escape you?
Are we escaping now?

interlude

bridge
Hey set em up, I could use a drink,
I’ve been awake for 3 long days.
Shoot one up, I crave another,
more than a mother, now.
More than a mother now.

solo

v3
Well I’m here and underweight,
tell me why my body aches.
Not for breakfast, not for lunch
This is why why I cry so much.

Music under water was so beautiful
now your're never around.
where is my father, what will he call me?
Do you hear me calling, now?

Do you hear me calling now?

Do you hear me calling now?

Last edited by Michael W. Brown; 1 hour ago.

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