The Endless Wait

from Motherhood by Brenda Earle Stokes

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The Endless Wait is a song about my experience being pregnant with my son. As I watched my bellow grew I wondered who this little life was inside me and pondered the incredible connection that this tiny person had with family members and ancestors he would never know.

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The open hand that hides your face
A sudden movement then it’s gone without a trace
The open door, the endless wait
For you

Another minute, another day
Another movement that ignites and drifts away
The fading sunlight, the growing dark
We wait, we hope, we pray.

Who are you that grows in me?


How could someone who has not even been born assemble generations of people with his tiny heartbeat?


The roots of our family tree wind and entwine growing longer and stronger, tying together forever your father and me


And my mother and her mother before her whom you’ll never even meet are indelibly and unstoppably part of you


And all the pain and healing - of who I was and who I am, and who I’m mean to be will be written in you


OUR STORY LIVES ON IN YOU.

The open hand that hides your face
A sudden movement then it’s gone without a trace
The open door, the endless wait

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from Motherhood, track released April 5, 2024
Personnel

Brenda Earle Stokes - vocals, piano, producer
Evan Gregor - bass
Ross Pederson - drums
Ingrid Jensen - trumpet
Melissa Stylianou and Nicole Zuraitis - supporting vocals

Chris Allen - engineer, mixing, mastering

Recorded at Samurai Hotel in Queens, NY

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Brenda Earle Stokes New York, New York

Brenda Earle Stokes is a Canadian pianist, vocalist, composer and educator based in NYC. She has fused her passion for jazz with a curiosity for Brazilian music, Music Theater and singer-songwriters. She performs internationally as a leader and sideman and has released four critically-acclaimed albums as a leader, which feature her original compositions and her unique takes on popular music. ... more

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