Song For My Mother lyrics

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Artist: Dean Friedman
Album: Dean Freidman

Lyrics

By dean friedman

In the hollow of your arms, snuggled up all safe and warn
You used to tell me tales of unicorns and kings
But how could I comprehend all the things you told me then
Of your madness and your struggling?

And my mind would swim in fantasies, like a piece of driftwood in the sea
I had no touchstone for reality. you were my reality

Like a dark and unlit room or the far side of the moon
Your insanity spoke emptiness and fear
And no matter how I tried, how I questioned and I pried
I just could not penetrate that thin veneer

And I know you tried to comfort me, to soothe and reassure me
But then your strength would always fail and in it's place a silken veil

Like a dried and wrinkled prune, a deflated toy balloon
I cam home and found you strewn across the floor
And as they lay you on your bed I heard you say
"If I a dead, how come it just keeps on hurting more and more?"

And you left me in the early spring. all they said was, "mommy's resting."
And how was I to know, so young, it wasn't something I had done?

So please try and understand, I will love you as I can
I do not blame you; you're not guilty
But still there's no way to describe the relief I finally found
Upon learning it was you, and not me, that was crazy

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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