Mother / Oh Mein Papa-Siouxsie and the Banshees

[00:15.68]The word you learn to love (The disapproval that you hate) [00:17.75]That's Mother (From Mother) [00:19.88]They teach you to respect... (Makes you always want to please) [00:23.22]Mother (Mother) [00:24.65]The one who keeps you warm (The one who keeps you warm) [00:26.70]And shelters you from harm (And shelters you from harm) [00:28.77]Watch out she'll stunt your mind (She'll open up your mind) [00:30.27]'Til you emulate her kind (To make you good and make you kind) [00:32.89]Is that Mother? (Mother...) [00:48.51]Downstairs I don't know (Downstairs I don't know) [00:50.68]If it's the springs in her bed (Why I feel safe in my bed) [00:52.86]Or her joints I hear (When I know I'm alone) [00:54.83]Creaking overhead (She must be watching overhead) [00:57.46]Mother!(Mother...) [01:14.22]She'll twist the words you speak (She'll kiss and say goodbye) [01:16.46]If she thinks you're near escape (If you want to go away) [01:19.49]Mother (Mother) [01:22.87]So she clutches at her brood (So she gathers up her brood) [01:25.09]And sits across its face (And smiles into their face) [01:27.61]She sucks up all its energy (She beams down vital energy) [01:29.84]And smothers their last breath (She gave us our first breath) [01:32.08]Oh Mother!(Mother...) [01:37.21]The thing you grow to hate (The love you won't forget)