Cold hands

from Heads of the family by I'dawn

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In the winter of 1999, my mother came home to die after almost two years of fighting a cancer. A raging storm ravaged most of France and we had power out for 10 days in the small village where I lived. I still remember vividly the cold, the sadness and the despair of those days.
Before leaving, she wrote a letter to me. The ink is fading out now but the words are still in my head.

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You whispered
The words you wrote for me

I kept the letter
But the lines began to blur

Daddy never came in the frozen house
He knew I was in trouble

Ten days all alone
With your ghost

The doctor came
With a needle in his hand

Relief at last
Just a shot away from death

Daddy never came in the frozen house
He knew I was in trouble

Storm reclaimed the land
I didn't belong to

You said 'Write some songs, with your guts, my son'
By dawn you were gone leaving just a hole in our hearts

You said 'To dust, we shall all return"
I would spit in the face of the god that is deaf

The winter night
You died was cold as the hands
We tried to give
Alone, we were in this awe

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from Heads of the family, released February 22, 2022

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I'dawn Bordeaux, France

Renaud Ehrengardt is the main composer of I'dawn. He has lived on four continents, playing music with many different people along the way. I'dawn was his first solo project and the more personal. Now living in Morocco, Renaud eats tajine in Marrakech.

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