A Baby That Never Cried- single, by Bewildernest

A Baby That Never Cried- single

by Bewildernest

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	A BABY THAT NEVER CRIED There's Joe and his girlfriend There's sheep herders and learned men There's a paranoid monarch committing infanticide And there's a baby that never cried There's motels and mangers There's heavenly strangers There's people bringing gifts from far and wide To see the baby- the one that never cried Can someone please tell me why it always plays out this way All this fuss about a child not born on Christmas Day? There's salvation and scandal And lighting one another's candles There's signs and songs of wonder sung in the sky In celebration of the baby that never cried And they sing For unto us a child is born For unto us a child is born And unto us a song is given Unto us a son is given And the Government shall be upon his shoulder Government shall be upon his shoulder He shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Almighty God Everlasting Father and the Prince of Peace Can someone please tell me why it always plays out this way All this fuss about a child not even born on Christmas Day? Because there's beggars and there's choosers There's winners and there's losers And there's those who never even get the chance to try To see the baby- the one that never cried There's the haves and the have-nots There's Fate, drinking cheap shots And there's all those questions that begin with the word 'Why' That I'm supposed to take to the baby that never cried Can someone please tell me why it always plays out this way All this fuss about a child not born on Christmas Day? I hope you don't think it's sin, but there's no room at my Inn For the baby that never cried on Christmas Day For the baby that never cried on Christmas Day For the baby that never cried

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"... the little Lord Jesus, no crying He makes..."
William J Kirkpatrick

While the Nativity is based on some actual events, how much stylizing has been done? The mythology of the superhero baby and the inaccessibility of a saviour like that in times like these feels like hollow hope. The Immanuel, God-with-us narrative only provides comfort and strength if the God character in that story is all in. If there were ever a year when westerners- particularly those of us with a presumptuously tidy, colonial worldview up til now- needed to be assured that God joins us in our tears as we experience helplessness, pain, mourning, disappointment, illness, outrage, embarrassment, surprise and uncertainty, it's this one. 2020 seems like the right year to release 'A Baby That Never Cried'.

With all moneys raised from the track going to 'Saskatoon Inter-Agency Response to COVID-19' (an organization that serves Help organizations in the YXE- for more info, please go to www.saskatooninteragencyresponse.ca ), we're inviting you to add a zero or two before the decimal, giving a generous donation and getting the tune for free!

Happy Holidays- stay safe!

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released December 3, 2020

Created on Treaty 6 Territory

Darryl Dozlaw: instruments, voices and production
Tim Bratton: electric guitar

Recorded by Darryl Dozlaw in The Bunker, November, 2020
Additional tracks recorded by Tim Bratton, November, 2020
Mastered at Pulsworks by Brady Leduc, Saskatoon, SK
December, 2020

Cover image courtesy of Amy Reinhardt
Mastering courtesy of Riversdale Neighbours

Special tip of the hat to G.F. Handel

"a neighbourhood record"

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Darryl Dozlaw Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Darryl Dozlaw is a Saskatoon (Treaty 6) singer-songwriter/ multi-instrumentalist. He records as Bewildernest (a collaborative, genre-nonspecific electronic recording context) or simply under his own name for singer/songwriter oriented material. Dozlaw also writes and plays as a member of Oscar's Hollow (Saskatoon based alt-country rock band). ... more

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