Song Title: What’s to become
of the Mockingbird
Songwriter: Angie
Heimann
Fort Bragg, California
Source of Inspiration: To Kill A
Mockingbird
Author: Harper Lee
How to reach Angie: angieheimann@adelphia.net
Angie's URL: TBA
Quote from the songwriter:
I love the way this book describes the difference between
coming gently into adulthood and losing one's innocence in a
way that does irreparable damage. In the song I attempted to
articulate this difference through the various "mockingbirds"
(the "innocent" characters in danger of a violent
loss.)
Lyrics to the song:
In a courtroom in a southern town
Watchers white and black and brown
Come to see the falling down
Of a mockingbird
They won’t uproot a lie so old
With so much history to uphold
No matter how the truth is told
Against a white man’s word
And so the mockingbird is caged
A sacrifice for day and age
To bring the turning of a page
Not just yet, but more near it
What’s to become of a mockingbird
Singing so sweet in the tree
When’s this world gonna be a place
Where the innocent go freeHigh up in the balcony
Nesting as if in a tree
Two eggs among the ebony
In danger of the fall
But they won’t break despite the spill
A father’s firm unbending will
Cushions where the fall would kill
Innocence and all
He who would protect his young
He who would have justice done
Draws the truth which must be sung
But cannot make them hear it
What’s to become of a mockingbird
Singing so sweet in the tree
When’s this world gonna be a place
Where the innocent go free
The path is never clean or sterile
Seeking justice invites peril
Unleashing beasts rabid and feral
Loose upon our streets
A father, though he aims the best
Preparing them for trial and test
Must let the young ones leave the nest
Their own wings for to beat
When their little world is shaken
A friend who know the feel of breaking
Comes out in time to stop the taking
Of their precious songs
What’s to become of a mockingbird
Singing so sweet in the tree
When’s this world gonna be a place
Where the innocent go free
© Angie Heimann
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