Paul Shapera
Danijela’s Sacrifice
[DANIJELA]
In a land far away
The girl's mother she prays
And each night in the dark
She can hear as she lays
Her child's calling out her mother's name

All those in her life
Think she's losing her mind
But this voice she can hear
And she swears that it's real
She cannot rest until she finds her child

Finally a priest
That she meets he believes
Says her daughter perceives
Things that no one else sees
From the White God, it's a gift that she's received

This gift he then says
She sees saints who are dead
Since you're neither well then
She won't see you again
You'll only hear her voice inside your head

Danijela she fasts
Till three months have then passed
She has prayed and is clean
As pure as she can be
She walks into the hospital at last
There's a room tucked away
Where the sick children lay
To each one, she goes round
With a kiss on the mouth
And the sickness deep inside she sucks away

In the room, there are ten
Children dying in beds
She cannot save them all
For by seven she falls
She dies there
In the lonely, empty hall

Little girl leads a lonely life
Except for one strange autumn night
She sees her mother standing by her side
Though her mother's not alive
Neither of them seem to mind
They sit beside
Each other every night

Cry mama cry
Cry mama cry
All I want is you here with me tonight