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Where's My Village?

from Dragonfly Clouds by Nina Lifely

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A motherhood protest song.

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Fire flickering in the night
Children bickering at my knee
I want to be alone and out of sight
I cannot find my true delight
Dragged down by responsibility

I wanna hold a guitar instead of a baby
Wanna find my identity
Wanna sing to the world
Wanna find my voice
Soon it will unfurl

Eight years since I’ve had a song in my head
Eight years of stifled creativity
Kids clamour louder than my soul to be fed
But I need something else in my life instead
Before I enter insanity

I wanna hold a guitar instead of a baby
Wanna find my identity
Wanna sing to the world
Wanna find my voice
Soon it will unfurl

No one says how hard it is this mothering
Where’s my village when I truly need it?
No one tells you how smothering
I’m fighting for air underneath it
No one wants to hear my truth
But I’m gonna speak it

I wanna hold a guitar instead of a baby
Wanna find my identity
Wanna sing to the world
Wanna find my voice
Soon it will unfurl

So I’m gonna hold a guitar instead of a baby
Gonna find my identity
Gonna sing to the world
Gonna find my voice
Soon it will unfurl
Here it is unfurled

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from Dragonfly Clouds, released June 8, 2019

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Nina Lifely Bristol, UK

Nina Lifely grew up in Gravesend, where she learnt to express herself musically through playing flute and singing with the Kent Youth Choir, and later, Queens’ College Chapel Choir, Cambridge, The music-making was interrupted by a career in social research and two children, to be resumed only in 2018, when counselling for childhood trauma unexpectedly unlocked her creativity. ... more

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