Catherine Margaret |
LyricsVerse 1Fifty-seven years ago today, I was twenty-two, holding you. I dreamed of being a devoted wife, A mother--that was all I knew. Two months later, you were gone. And the woman I had planned to be Was gone with you. Chorus Catherine Margaret, my baby girl, You left this world before you began. But you changed my life In ways I never could have planned. Verse 2 When your sister came along, I watched the world through different eyes. I learned how fragile life could be, How quickly a child could die. I had to learn to protect her, To fight for every breath. But learning how to save one life Wasn't enough to fight death. Chorus Catherine Margaret, my baby girl, You left this world before you began. But you changed my life In ways I never could have planned. Verse 3 So I kept on learning, Until I could meet death face to face. I stood beside so many lives And fought to give them one more day. I fought death like the enemy, And often I made it lose. I watched mothers take their babies home. I watched families get good news. Verse 4 But fifty-seven years have taught me Medicine has another truth: Death isn't always the enemy. Sometimes letting go is what love asks us to do. I learned when to fight. I learned when to stay. I learned that sometimes mercy Is letting death have its way. Bridge Fifty-seven years have passed, And now I understand: You never got the life you should have had, But you gave me mine. Final Chorus / Coda Catherine Margaret, my baby girl, You left this world before you began. But you changed my life. You changed my life. And somewhere along the way, I saved another Catherine's life. A mother wrote to me: "Thank you for saving our baby, Catherine's life." My Catherine I could not save. But your name lived on. You changed my life. You changed the lives of others. And that's the difference you made. |
| Short Song Description: Catherine Margaret 09/07/1969-11/07/1969 |
| Song Length: 5:14 |
| Primary Genre: Blues-General |
| Secondary Genre: - |