"View Of The Child" genre: Pop
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	Haunting and heartwrenching song that gives eyes wide open view of childhood sexual abuse. The urban machine-like drum programming represents the cycle of abuse, the arpegiated piano notes the lullaby of solace and the guitar solo the call to heal.
	CD: No Easy Answers   Label: Independent Credits: Music & Lyrics: L. Doyle
	Story Behind the Song Oh, I swear this song has almost killed me about 3 times. I was in so much pain when I first wrote it because I was in turmoil about discovering that a child I knew was being sexually abused by her father. Childhood sexual abuse is something I have had to use every ounce of my strength to overcome and heal from and I was completely at a loss of what to do since the parents of this child seemed determined to continue the cycle. So, I wrote the song. Then I began recording a demo of it. I got lost in the darkness of the subject matter while recording the vocals and left the studio crying hysterically. I had a long pattern of turning to men and sex when I wanted out of pain but this time I just drove my truck and cried and cried until at last the truth came up... I began to sob: “I want my momma”. This was a critical point for me since through all the healing work I’d done around abuse, facing what really happened, owning the anger, becoming empowered by choice... I had never owned my need for mothering. I went on a quest to find a woman healer to work with and found an amazing woman named Claudette who does very deep Chakra and energy work. I was able to find my way through and confront the woman who was the mother of the child. Recording this song for the album was another layer of the healing I needed to do. When we went to purchase the prayer bowl we used in the song to chime its pure tone on the word truth I learned from the mystical owner of the shop we were in that healing does not just move forward into the future. It is more like dropping a stone in a pool of water. The healing we do resonates to those who come after and to those who came before. Certainly this song, though nearly killing me with the painful subject matter, has truly made me more conscious and whole. Lyrics View of the Child Mr. Empty’s taking another drink tonight he’s an empty bag of bones lost his way to find his light and Mr. Empty’s taking another life he’s gonna rip apart her world gonna tell her all those lies and if you wanna know the truth you don’t have to search for proof you just gotta look from the view of the child She turns a blind eye to what she sees can’t stand to think she’s let the cycle repeat she’s afraid to face the dark to go alone so she lets him take the little girl and fakes her happy home and if you wanna know the truth you don’t have to search for proof you just gotta look from the view of the child

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