Ben Abraham Somebody's Mother song lyrics

Third of November

Thanks for your letter

Your picture book's stretched out the length of four cars

Your story's not easy

Then what is easy

With parents like yours and my list like ours

You got me thinking

What really happened

To know I've been happy to let the dogs lie

Maybe I need to find

Someone to bleed to

Maybe that's you and for you maybe I

What do I know

What do I know about her

I've called her an empress

I've called her a tempest

A force with no equal, no other

I've called her an angel

A rogue and a stranger

But it just hit me now

She was somebody's mother

Suffer the children

Cursed with the parent

So it has been or at least until now

The looking glass turned to the obvious person

And I've seen it all and I still don't know how

The heart won't be silent

But do I seek the silence

The question is posed now you need to explain

The books that I've read made me hardly prepared

But then what's prepared in the tempest of pain

What do I know

What do I know about it

I've been a soldier, the wither the colder

I've been a wife and a lover

I've been the backbone

I've been the dead zone

But I remember now

That I was somebody's mother