Mrs. Owens is a Psychic?

 In the first chapter of Neil Gaiman's, The Graveyard Book, we see a baby escape a killer, walk into a graveyard, and see ghosts. He then gets somewhat adopted by these ghosts specifically Mr. and Mrs. Owens and they name him Nobody. To soothe Nobody after he starts crying, Mrs. Owens sings a lovely, yet eerie lullaby: 

"Sleep my little babby-oh

Sleep until you waken

When you're grown you'll see the world

If I'm not mistaken. 

Kiss a lover, 

Dance a measure, 

Find your name 

and buried treasure..." (Gaiman 26). 

She sang him many other songs as well, but this is the only one Gaiman wrote out for us. This leads me to believe it may have some foreshadowing properties. 

To start, the first two lines, obviously she is singing to get the baby to sleep. This is simple enough. However, the word "waken" has yet to reveal itself to me as simply wake up from sleep, or wake in the sense of waking up into his life as a ghost. If it is the latter, this may be a small foreshadow that eventually, this boy will die. I believe it is too soon to tell for sure. 

The third and fourth line are where I start to see the beginning of some possible hints of where this storyline is headed. In chapter two, there is a time jump to the boy being about five years old. We as the audience are not positive of his age, but there is a line from Scarlett that gives us a possible answer, "'Poor thing. I'm five. Bet you're five too,'" (Gaiman 41). Since Nobody is older, he is starting to question why he is stuck inside the cemetery as he can see Silas leave and the world outside the graveyard. This shows that his mind is starting to wander beyond the fences of the graveyard. Eventually, in chapter four Nobody actually leaves the graveyard. This fulfills the prophetical nature of the third and fourth lines of Mrs. Owens' lullaby. 

For the fifth and sixth lines, I am not sure how those will be fulfilled yet. However, we are just introduced to Liza Hempstock in chapter four. Nobody seems to be taken with her as she is the catalyst for him being disobedient, which is outside of his normal nature, and leaving the graveyard. We also see a possible foreshadowing moment of Bod's attraction to Liza, "...Bod didn't think she would have needed magic to attract Solomon Porritt, not with a smile like that," (Gaiman 111). So, if this is the lover mentioned in the song, a kiss is coming. 

The last two lines are the most interesting to me. I have a feeling that the buried treasure mentioned in inside the tomb with the Sleer. We know there is treasure down there because Bod has been down there a few times. However, if the treasure already seen has any significant meaning, we will see. The name part is the more interesting part, in my opinion. We as the readers know, Nobody is the name the ghosts gave him. We met bod before he met the ghosts and we do not know his real name yet. I am assuming his real name will come back into the plot some how, I am not sure in what way, but I am excited to find out.