You Can See Me In Your Face

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I'm working on a short religious musical play, from a Latter-Day Saint perspective. It will have two songs with the same melody.

The first half of the play is about an ancestor appealing to her living descendent to do the religious rites necessary to save her soul and reunite her with her husband and children in the afterlife. This is the past version above

The other future version of the song will be an unborn child appealing to her potential parents, so that he or she might have a chance to live. Instead of singing "Can you remember me?", the child will sing "Can you imagine me?".

Both songs will reference being able to see the ancestor and future child in the living woman's face.

The theme goes back to a novel published in 1912 called Added Upon by Nephi Anderson.

You can see me in your face (past version) In life you didn’t know me. I had died so long ago. But in another when you knew me, In an existence all aglow. I hope someday you’ll find me On some page with faded ink - Part of your family history - That undiscovered missing link. Can you remember me? I was more than just a name. I lived and loved, gave birth and died, And passed on my husband’s name. Can you remember me, From another time and place? Gaze closely in your looking glass; You can see me in your face. Can you remember me? Don’t forget me.

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