Lullaby
Dreams Take Flight: Priscilla Ahn's Lullaby Unveils a Town's Hopeful Escape
Lyrics
Here's a Lullaby
Offering a lullaby
For anyone who wants to fly
For those aspiring to break free and soar
From their home town
From their hometown
Where people drown and where the town leaves die
Where people face challenges and dreams fade
This old library
Describing an old library
Has thirty books and one dictionary
With limited resources
But that's okay no one reads anyway we all watch tv
Accepting the prevalence of TV over reading
So here's your lullaby
Continuing the lullaby
No boy don't cry just rest your head and go to bed your time will come to fly
Encouraging a boy not to cry
Away
Assuring that his time to "fly away" will come
Never a day just dream your life away
Suggesting a perpetual state of dreaming
Sleep
Emphasizing the theme of sleep
All the dogs will die
Expressing a grim reality where dogs die
They just cant seem to stay alive
Attributing their demise to an inability to survive
Cause in this town our cop shoots him down and we just let him go inside
Highlighting a town's indifference to such events
Please God please what happened to our dreams
Pleading with God about lost dreams
Were losing hope so we invest in dope to feel our vacant feelings
Describing a community turning to drugs to fill emotional voids
So here's your lullaby
Resuming the lullaby, this time for a girl
No girl don't cry just rest your head and go to bed your time will come to fly
Advising her not to cry, promising a future chance to "fly away"
Away
Never a day just dream your life away
Reiterating the idea of perpetual dreaming
Sleep
Encouraging sleep as a means of escape or solace
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