Name: Lil One
Duration: 3 min 17 s
Channel: Amy Caldwell/Tom Moore
Description: This is a song about a mother and her "lil one" My second collaboration with Tom Moore, his songs do inspire! An honour to write and sing for you Tom!

This is a song about a mother and her "lil one" My second collaboration with Tom Moore, his songs do inspire! An honour to write and sing for you Tom!

joni mitchell

Amy Caldwell

Sometimes soft and melancholy, sometimes not..

I'm a a singer/songwriter originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I've tinkered with many instruments but pretty much stick to piano and guitar. I've been a member here at Soundclick for about 20 years now, I have met some incredible people from all over the world. I have collaborated with a lot of different musicians in my time here, but most notably I have been working quite closely with Juri Rosenfeld aka Grand Jury. Juri is an utterly amazing composer, musician, arranger, producer from Finland. And I am thrilled to be working with him. Very often the lyricist for these songs is Dawn Sinclair an extremely talented and prolific writer from England. From time to time I have worked with other artists as well, most of whom I have met here on Soundclick. Another SC member, Tom Moore and I have worked closely together on many projects as well, including a 17 song Christmas CD. I absolutely love musical collaboration but have recently been trying to focus on completing some more of my own original compositions. Also check out the band Fractured Beauty, here on Soundclick another collaboration project featuring the talents of Bob Kingdon and others with a psychedelic vibe.

Song Info

Genre

Pop • Dance-Pop

Charts

Peak #291

Peak in subgenre #122

Author

Amy Caldwell/Tom Moore

Rights

Amy Caldwell/Tom Moore 2005

Uploaded

September 23, 2005

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.0 MB • 128 kbps • 3:17

Story behind the song

This song was written by Tom Moore. I wrote the words and the vocal lines, there's a story here, but it's mainly about questions children ask and the difficulty sometimes for adults to respond, even understand. Especially the things that we ourselves don't understand.

Lyrics

I rememebr a cloudy day, 
the rain just wouldn't come.
We sat on the front porch step, 
just me and my lil one. 

The wind was up and the breeze was cool,
the linens danced on the line.
She smiled and stared at the sky,
then her eyes looked into mine
her blue-green eyes searched mine.

Why can't the sun shine down,
it would be so pretty then, she said.
Why can't the garden come inside.
Why do the birds leave us when winter comes
don't they get tired while they fly

so many questions, so few things I can say
there's so much confusion now
when Daddy comes our way
there's so much confusion now
and Daddy goes away

So I look into her eyes
and take her hand in mine
Babe, I don't have all the answers
but maybe in time, 
we'll find our peace of mind

and then she said to me
but Mama, aren't you scared
I feel a little lost 
and nothing here seems fair.
All that I could do
was hold her close then
don't you worry, baby,
we will find our way again.