Why Did I Give Him Away? by The Hatpin Original Cast Lyrics

(Amber)
If he couldn’t stay warm in the winter
He was dead
If he couldn’t stay cool in the summer
He was dead
If Horace stayed with me
He was dead
When I sent him to stay with that family

So why did I give him away?
Why did any of us give them away?

Being with me, he died
Without some warmth, he died
The chance of him living was greater
With someone else, it was greater

But I could not let Horace die
I didn’t matter, but he could not die

That’s why I left him that day
Because I loved him, I gave him away
To someone for a moment, forsake
Were the only choices left for me to make
In the end, only one seemed right
Not death, not death
But one chance at life