Frau Sinclair's Lament by The Sacred and Profane Melodies of Julia Ryder published on 2022-07-31T22:37:39Z I found Herman Hesse's Demian very unsettling. This is the hitherto unwritten story of Emil Sinclair's mother. I remember the night I remember the rain Like the fingers of death pressing on the window pane I remember the fight As I laboured in vain And from deep in a well saw the flash of a blade To retrieve you from hell while my life ebbed away A bloody broken shell all in pieces I lay And she lifted you high like a bird Rising clear of the world I remember our life Before the darkness came Through the blindfold of light and the nursery haze Your secretive mind You know I'm just the same So I built us a world that might keep him away But I was a fool for he came anyway He strode from the past with that look of disdain And I relived my history of shame. Never, never again! Oh I held you so close When you were but a babe And I nursed you so tenderly, singing your name But it always seemed false And I rubbed at the stain Then I saw it so clearly but never could explain How I loved you so dearly, till my heart turned grey, Till that star from the sky fell and took you away Into the screaming shallows of a young soldier's grave And there in my window again You showed me your face And though it was unchanged It bore the mark of Cain. Genre Folk & Singer-Songwriter Comment by Bengt Erik Roth User 188944807 Lovely song! 2023-06-22T10:33:58Z Comment by Wet Dogs Music Who is Frau Sinclair 2022-08-05T23:03:25Z Comment by Wet Dogs Music This is really catchy well done the vocal 2022-08-05T23:02:24Z Comment by Brian Peters I like this very much Julia!!! 2022-08-05T16:33:12Z