An old class photograph on top of the drawer
Fading and silver framed
The photographer tried to make everybody smile
I prayed that you would send angels
to shield with their wings
Oh, please don't throw a child
to walk alone in the dark night

When the first snow
birthed in Heaven
melted into the ground
he didn't come home in the evening

A hard heart and harder hands
have grabbed him
The most familiar streets and stones and ditches
they have hidden our boy
A hard heart and harder hands
have grabbed him
The street won't speak
won't confess anything
where has it lost the boy

That, which you tampered with
belonged to someone else

A mother's worry lasts a lifetime
The cradle is quiet now and the rocking chair
Who could hurt mommy's little darling?

The cursed culprit
some faceless person
Which one of you was it
And whose hand is stainless

wherever I walk in this world
you are there to take care of me

A hard heart and harder hands
have grabbed him
and the snows that melted today
have revealed the boy at the bottom of the ditch