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Heart​-​Shaped Key

by Rosanne Olson

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A story about immigration and compassion, featuring a woman and her child as they travel from El Salvador toward the United States.

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Heart-Shaped Key
© Rosanne Olson

There’s a brown-skinned woman
baby on her side, walking
to the borderline.
Hope and fear
written on her face
crossing the desert
for 40 long days

She left behind
the only home she’d known
back in El Salvador
There she buried her only son
who died from gangs
and guns

Chorus #1
But the borderline is
made of bricks and barbed-wire
. . . to keep her in her place
what she needs
is a heart-shaped key
to open up the gate
. . . . A heart shaped key
ohh, ohhh

v2
River of blood
runs through her town
gotta out
before it all comes down
By the grace of god
she’ll make a new life
across the borderline

I dream of her
coming into view
at the border of Mexico
I dream of her
reach for her hand
across the Rio Grande

Chorus #2
But the borderline is
made of bricks and barbed-wire
. . . they’ll take her baby away
what she needs
is a heart-shaped key
to open up the gate
. . . . A heart shaped key
ohh, ohhh

Interlude (oooos)

Chorus #1

credits

released October 28, 2019
Rosanne Olson: lyrics and song; Jed Myers, guitar solos, Kimberly Newland, producer and engineer

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Rosanne Olson Seattle, Washington

Rosanne Olson is an artist, photographer and songwriter based in Seattle, WA.

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