Embrace Me, You Child

(Carly Simon)

At night in bed I heard God whisper lullabyes

While Daddy next door whistled whiskey 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 night time streets sang Daddy

And God sang, Pray the devil doesn't get to you

I 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

Embrace me you child, you're a child of mine

And I'm leaving everything I am to you

Go chase the wild and night time streets sang Daddy

And God sang, Pray the devil doesn't get to you

Then one night Daddy died and went to Heaven

And God came down to earth and slipped away

I pretended not to know 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

Embrace me you child, you're a child of mine

And I'm leaving everything I am to you

Go chase the wild and night time streets sang Daddy

And God sang, Pray the devil doesn't get to you