My Child

Album: Asylum (2010)
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Songfacts®:

  • Frontman David Draiman explained the story behind this song: "I had gotten a previous girlfriend pregnant, and got ready to have the baby, and was anticipating it, and she miscarried after the first trimester. So I was in the mindset of 'OK, I'm ready to be a father. I'm ready to do this.' And we lost the child."
  • Asylum, the band's fifth studio album, received a Gold certification in the US for 500,000 copies sold - half the amount its predecessor, the Platinum-certified Indestructible, sold.
  • The singer became a father in 2013 when his wife, Lena Yada, gave birth to their son, Samuel Bear Isamu Draiman.

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