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