Perfect she was

D. Pritchard

Taking it in, breathing it out

Riddled with fear we’re trembling now

The happiest pain that we ever found

Perfect, she was

Breaking the news, breaking the heart

Breaking reality tore it apart

Praying her cries would light up the dark

Perfect, she was

I saw the girl become a woman

With courage and pain and salt on the linen

Created a life, a beautiful girl

Perfect, she was

You should have seen her, looked just like her mother

Just like her mother, except for the hair

Six pound, nine, our beautiful daughter

We’ll always remember, when we got to hold you

Perfect she was

Deep in the night we struggle to rest

Working again and sending the rent

But even in death we’ll never forget

Perfect, she was

Coming to terms with all that we suffer

Forever a dad, forever a mother

Forever she sleeps here in the heart

Perfect, she was

You should have seen her, looked just like her mother

Just like her mother, except for the hair

Six pound, nine, our beautiful daughter

We’ll always remember, when we got to hold you

Perfect she was

Rockabye baby, above the treetops

When the wind blows, the cradle will rock

Rockabye baby, high above the tree tops

Where the wind blows

Perfect, she was

You should have seen her, looked just like her mother

Just like her mother, except for the hair

Six pound, nine, our beautiful daughter

We’ll always remember, when we got to hold you

Perfect she was