The word you learn to love The disapproval that you hate that's Mother

from Mother

They teach you to respect... Makes you always want to please Mother

Mother



The one who keeps you warm The one who keeps you warm And shelters you

from harm And

shelters you from harm Watch out she'll stunt your mind She'll open up

your mind 'Til you emulate

her kind To make you good and make you kind Is that Mother? Mother



Downstairs I don't know Downstairs I don't know If it's the springs in

her bed Why I feel safe in

my bed Or her joints I hear When I know I'm alone Creaking overhead She

must be watching

overhead Mother Mother



She'll twist the words you speak She'll kiss and say goodbye If she

thinks you're near escape If

you want to go away Mother Mother

So she clutches at her brood So she gathers up her brood And sits across

its face And smiles into

their face She sucks up all its energy She beams down vital energy And

smothers their last breath

She gave us out first breath Oh Mother Mother



The thing you grow to hate The love you won't forget