Maya de Vitry - "Baby Elephants" - feat. Hannah Delynn

Maya de Vitry - vocals, guitar
Hannah Delynn - vocals

filmed and recorded live, by Scot Sax, in Nashville, TN on June 21, 2023

music and lyrics by Maya Elizabeth de Vitry, BMI
administered by Domino Publishing Company of America

Baby Elephants

I think about the man I met
Out in the southwestern desert
He was living on mushrooms and sun
He said he must have been as tall
As that barbed wire fence
Before he felt love from anyone

He said his father was a cruel man
And his own mother hated him
Probably just for being a man
Animal to animal, we all get scared
We try hide it any way we can
We try hide it any way we can

Baby elephants get tied to a rope
Too thick for a baby to break
They're ready when it's clear
They've given up
On ever getting away
And then grown up elephants
They never test the rope
Imagine living with seven tons
Of strength you've never known
Imagine living
With strength you've never known

Said he was headed for nowhere
And happy to be there
And there's good space to do that out west
He said crying that night
Felt just like getting
An elephant off his chest

Sometimes it's just too much
Like looking inside us
To look in each other's eyes
Desire and fear
They all live right in here
And you can usually tell who drives
You can usually tell who drives

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