Oh Mother Lyrics

I was born in the buttocks of this holy empire

I was born in the backseat while my dad changed the tire

She was pregnant as a river on a spring day

And I was fightin' like a dam to keep it that way

And Oh, Mother, why must this all change? It's so warm and it's wet

And the meals are pre-arranged and the hope remains

On, mother, to fall in love

Oh, Mother, I want to fall in love

Early adolescence seems unnaturally cruel

When you can't play the scholar and you can't play the fool

I was livin' with the burden of the council houses

And mild acne and baggy trousers

And only fourteen, she was nineteen in the fall

She had a car, she had aroma, she had employment in the mall

And we drove off into the outskirts until all the lights were blurs

Then she parked me her arms and pressed my lips on hers

Oh, to fall in love and never fall out again

Oh, Mother, please explain what it means

To fall in love and never fall

Yes, to fall in love and never fall out again

Oh, I've been a bad boy, I've been good

At times and out and out bastard and yet misunderstood

I've been looking for a hovel, I've been aching for a home

I've been dyin' for a place to call my own

I want to be naked and real and I want to breathe and I want to feel

Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah

In early spring we drifted into two separate worlds

So I booked a cottage at Lake Crest near a camp for large girls

We were puttin' on a show for the so inclined

She was manic-depressive I was borderline

A corrosion of hope, a mild infection getting worse

Eight weeks of therapeutic counselling only hastened the divorce and I want

To fall in love

To fall in love and never fall out

Oh, Mother, how can I explain

When I was warm and I was wet, life was somehow sane

Oh, Mother, to never, to never, to never fall out again

To fall in love and never fall out again