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My Children Are All For The Ground (Catelyn)

from Songs of Westeros by thelastclarissa

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Gods be good. Gods be kind.
Gods, don't make me laugh;
don't make me lose my mind.

Show me the path I must walk
and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.
Let me be of use to the one son remaining me.
Let me not live to see another child dead.

I've never been bloodthirsty before.
Never had reason to thirst it.
But if it would bring my babes back
I would rip your throat out in a second.

Ned always said that the man
who passes the sentence should swing the blade,
though he never took any joy in the duty.
But I would, oh, yes. I would turn that blade.

And it's because of men like you that my children are dead;
that my bed lies cold to me.
It's men like you , who thirst for blood as soon as for wine-
that I am laid low; that I must put iron in my spine.
But I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings.
There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.
There is a wight that used to be love.
There is a wight that used to be love.

Gods be good. Gods be kind.
Gods, don't make me laugh;
don't make me lose my mind.

I am hanging by a thread but I will not- I cannot- let go.
A mother shouldn't live to see her children buried,
and I would give any-any-anything to let it not be so.
I cannot- I will not- let them go.

Ned always said that the man
who passes the sentence should swing the blade,
though he never took any joy in the duty.
But I would, oh, yes. I would turn that blade.

And it's because of men like you that my children are dead;
that my bed lies cold to me.
It's men like you , who thirst for blood as soon as for wine-
that I am laid low; that I must put iron in my spine.
But I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings.
There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.
There is a wight that used to be love.
There is a wight that used to be love.

I am a mother and I am a mother and I am a mother
oh I am a mother and now
my children are all for the ground.

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from Songs of Westeros, released August 4, 2013

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