joeo March 14th, 2009 03:21AM  

Paul visits his father years after his mothers death. He is now successful and grown but misses, grieves and loves his mother. He misses his parents, his family and childhood family memories and home. His father had remarried and he now has a stepsister. He sits down on the Piano and opens his Step Sisters songbook but he cannot make heads or tails of a composition in it. Instead he writes his own lullaby. Paul is comforting himself the way his mother comforted him. For many of us when we lose our mums home is never the same. Once's mother most times is the heart of most families. Therefore a sad but comforting lullaby. "Once there was a way to get back home......Sleep little darling do not cry and I will sing a lullaby, Golden Slumbers.....Paul still remebers the love warmth and nurturing that his mum was in his life.

har0462 August 28th, 2009 12:43AM  

The words are taken from the poem of The same name by Thomas Dekker (1572 - 1632). They are almost verbatim, but modernised a bit. This is the poem by Dekker. Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise ; Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry, And I will sing a lullaby, Rock them, rock them, lullaby. Care is heavy, therefore sleep you, You are care, and care must keep you ; Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry, And I will sing a lullaby, Rock them, rock them, lullaby.