{"id":725,"date":"2018-03-20T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T02:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/?p=725"},"modified":"2020-12-26T21:00:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T04:00:32","slug":"lyrics-my-mother-bore-me-phantom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/20\/lyrics-my-mother-bore-me-phantom\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyrics: My Mother Bore Me (Phantom)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>English translation of lyrics from the Takarazuka production based on the Off-Broadway musical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Some of the text of this song is based on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/43671\/the-little-black-boy\">this poem by William Blake<\/a>\u2026it was whitewashed in the process but I believe that this originated in English versions of the show.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My mother bore me<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Phantom:<\/strong><br>My mother bore me in the southern wilds<br>Though I live in darkness my soul is bright<br>She taught me this<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018When you look up at the morning sun<br>You can see God smiling down<br>You can feel the time coming when your heart can rest<br>If you listen carefully you can hear the voice of God:<br>\u201cCome, my beloved, come out of the shadows\u201d\u2019<br>When my mother told me this, she kissed me<br>She always held me close<br>With overflowing warmth<br>That mother\u2019s love<br>I felt in you, Christine<br>So please<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though my face is hidden you can touch my soul, Christine<br>You are everything to me, Christine<br>The name I cry in the night is Christine<br>It\u2019s far too sublime to even be called &#8216;Love\u2019<br>I won\u2019t let anyone have you<br>I\u2019ll keep loving you<br>My own Christine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English translation of lyrics from the Takarazuka production based on the Off-Broadway musical. (Some of the text of this song is based on\u00a0this poem by William Blake\u2026it was whitewashed in the process but I believe that this originated in English &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/20\/lyrics-my-mother-bore-me-phantom\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,30,11],"tags":[7,222],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}