mother (live at electroslop) Lyrics

If I could grow my hair out even longer

And wear those plastic little fingers

I'd put my eyes in bands of silver

And tears of black for when you leave me

If my falsetto sounded stronger

I'd stretch my voice to reach the mountains

And maybe I'd hear my desires cry back

And reach out to reclaim their mother

I woke up in a dream

With my chest in my hands

And a smile in the mirror

A smile with more teeth

Than words I could say

To help me understand

And I still don't

But if I did, would you too?

If I did, the words I'd say to you

If you could tell this to your parents

Would it help to have this

Picture in your hands

Take it with you

And hold it in the morning sun

Then hide it underneath your pillow again

If I could grow my hair out even longer

And wear those plastic little fingers

I'd put my eyes in bands of silver

And tears of black for when you leave me

If my falsetto sounded stronger

I'd stretch my voice to reach the mountains

And maybe I'd hear my desires cry back

And reach out to reclaim their mother