Bird on a Wire (The Unarmed Child)

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Arrangements

• SATB

Recording Link (begin at 13:33)

Description

Part of the Socially Responsive Works — Bird on a Wire was inspired by our mockingbird neighbors whose nest was emptied of its babies one sad, spring night. The parents continued guarding their nest for another week or so, perching high on a telephone wire overhead, and I thought, "That is exactly how all our lives were suspended when we lost Cameron." He did not die by violence, other than the violence disease does on a little boy's body; but seeing what my sweet sister-and-brother-in-law went through changed the way I see things: Sandy Hook, Syria, and the poisoning of children in Flint. Words cannot describe the unimaginable loss of losing a child; still I hope these words help people understand that the world cannot bear to lose even one more... not to disease, not to neglect, and certainly not to violence. - Shantel Sellers, lyricist

Difficulty

Medium

Instrument(s)

Piano

Copyright Year

2019

Product ID

MB2625-SATB