Topic: Only Just Begun
I wrote this song after reading this tragic story out of Utah in the news recently. The bodies of 7 babies were found in the garage of the babies' mother, who had apparently killed 6 of them, after her first baby was stillborn. It just made me sad wondering just what the world had lost when these lives were taken away so near each of their births. Initially it was thought that she killed all of the children, but now as more details were discovered it is believed that the first child was stillborn, and that event might have started the whole tragic cycle. I was trying to focus on what the world will be without rather that the actions of the mother, but I sure wish this could have been prevented.
Only Just Begun By Jeff Gilpin
April 14, 2014
Intro strumming Am\\\\ \\G\
[Am]Anna would have grown up
To become a high school teacher.
[Am]Billy was filled with gospel fire;
He was born to be a preacher.
[F]James would just turn out to be
An ordinary guy,
While [Am]Sarah would write love songs
That would start the world to cry.
The [G]twins, Ian and Elaine
Would write children bed time stories.
And [E]Benjamin would study history and
Dream a[E7]bout the days of glory.
But a [F]mother in confusion
Decided she would get rid,
And she [Am]also kept that secret
In the place where secrets hid.
We will [F]never know exactly who they’d grow to become,
Their [G]seven little lives were over not long [E]after they’d begun.
And it’s so [F]hard to imagine
What was going on inside.
In the [Am]mind of their mother,
Or the pressure she was under,
Or what [F]drove her in the end
To end the lives of her babies
When their [G]lives had [E]only just be[Am]gun. \\\\ \\G\
[Am]The picture of her face
All full of sorrow. Full of haunted
[Am]Mother’s lasting memories
And what would be the cost of.
For those [F]lives so early finished
That will never be replenished
Like the [Am]eyes we’ll never see.
The unseen eyes of seven babies
With the [G]names we’ll have to guess at
And whose lives we must surmise were
Hidden [Am]in a Utah car garage
Among other forgotten refuse
Where the [G]bodies of the children were ended early on
Before the [E]babies could ever find out where in [E7]life they would belong
Because a [F]mother in confusion
Decided she would get rid,
And she [Am]also kept that secret
In the place where secrets hid.
We will [F]never know exactly who they’d grow to become,
Their [G]seven little lives were over not long [E]after they’d begun.
And it’s so [F]hard to imagine
What was going on inside.
In the [Am]mind of their mother,
Or the pressure she was under,
Or what [F]drove her in the end
To end the lives of her babies
When their [G]lives had [E]only just be[Am]gun. \\\\ \\\\ X2 fade
J E T S
...and yet a Washington Commanders fan (unless they change their name again) ...long story...HTT...C
...and yet a Washington Commanders fan (unless they change their name again) ...long story...HTT...C
