
Sleepytime for O.
by Andros Zins-Browne
Ornette was born July, 2024. This is an evolving lullaby I sing to them every night to try and put them to sleep, with decidedly mixed results.
It’s sleepy time.
That is the time.
That is the time that, we allll go to sleep.
Relax your mind
Find Peace inside
Forget these rhymes so we can allll go to sleep
In sleepy time.
There’s a land
It's made of sand
It's made of oceans, mountains, forests, and clouds too...
It’s me and you.
And when we sleep, we dream and make it all come true
It’s sleepy land. sleepy land O,
O sleepy land.
Then there’s this one, O
He’s our son, O
He’s our earth, our moon, our planets, and stars too-
He’s me and you, O,
And everyday that he grows,
He discovers all the worlds that can be true...
He’s sleepy one
Sleepy one O
Oh sleepyone sleepyone sleepy one.
Now day is done
And It was fun
We laughed, we leapt, we fell, we loved ...
And it was true
Tomorrow’s new
Tomorrow’s new, O
Tomorrow’s new…
Andros Zins-Browne is a choreographer from New York City and co-parent to Ornette Ray (O.).

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