Shasta (Carrie's Song) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Saiai 

Cover art for Shasta (Carrie's Song) lyrics by Vienna Teng

Hm, it seems like it's a woman who intends to have an abortion because she's put into a bad situation "tears that once did flow, starting ten o'clock and ending at dawn." She ends up driving back after not doing it, though, "you put a hand to the belly that's foriegn more with every day like an oversized load." She's scared of how people will react "they'll take your in your arms and then they'll take out their knives," so she keeps on driving. As she does, she's thinking about the woman who was "handing out pamphlets by the clinic door saying "Jesus knows what you've been through. Take the Savior into your heart my child, there's love waiting for the both of you."" She ends up thinking about, ironically, "somebody died that day, the you that was so carefully planned," and she knows her life will never be the same, but "maybe this life is like a sleeping mountain, waking up to shake the land."

(By the way, I'm not pro-life or pro-choice in this. It's all personal.)