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Lullaby Theory (Simonides 543)

from Greener than Grass by Marissa Henry

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Inspired by a fragment about Danae, the mother of the famous hero Perseus, at her most vulnerable: trapped in a box with her infant son, drifting on the ocean, unable to do anything but comfort her baby and hope for the best.

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Sleep my child and tell the roaring ocean to go to sleep
Sleep my child and maybe then our troubles will go to sleep
The ocean swirls around your bed
The wind is wailing up above your head
And everything that frightens me
Is nothing to you in your sleep my child

The sea is vast and we are locked inside of our little box
Your face is bright within the gloomy darkness inside the box
I don’t know where we are, my son
I don’t know if we’ll ever see the sun
And all that I can do for you
Is wrap you up and hold you close my child

Father Zeus is far away and never will hear my voice
But we are lost and all alone, and so, I will raise my voice
And maybe he will think me bold
And maybe he will leave us in the cold
I hope that he forgives my prayer
And changes course and saves me and my child

Sleep my child and tell the roaring ocean to go to sleep
Sleep my child and maybe then our troubles will go to sleep
The ocean swirls around your bed
The wind is wailing up above your head
And everything that frightens me
Is nothing to you in your sleep my child

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from Greener than Grass, released November 28, 2018
Cello by Julia Shu

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Marissa Henry Berkeley, California

Marissa is a Classics Ph.D. student and singer-songwriter specializing in folk-pop adaptations of ancient Greek poetry played on toy instruments.

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