Thursday, March 22, 2012

Happy Birthday


Being a supporter of life, this song hit me deeply.  It shows the regret and guilt that a man feels when his woman had an abortion.  First, it shows how the abortion can affect the man as well as the woman.  She may not want the baby, but its a part of him too and he would want a say in whether or not his child lives.  It also shows the regret in never being able to know his own child.  He is left with the mystery of what the child would look like, if they'd be a boy or a girl, if they'd be an athlete or a genius, and how much they'd love eachother.  He acknowledges that when he was younger, he was afraid and thought he was not ready to be a father.  He didn't think much back then about how he'd feel in the future about letting his child be murdered.  Now that he has a son, he wishes more and more that he had kept the first child because of how much his son means to him.

"And from the heavens to the womb to the heavens again
From the endin' to the endin', never got to begin
Maybe one day we could meet face to face?
In a place without time and space
Happy birthday..."


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