For A Thousand Mothers

Did you hear mother?

Saying I'm wrong but I know I'm right.

Did you hear father?

Calling my name into the night.

Saying I'll never be what I am now.

Telling me I'll never find what I've already found.

It was they who were wrong,

And for them here's a song.

Did you hear baby

Come back and tell you the things he's seen.

Did it surprise you

To be picked up at eight in a limousine?

Doing the things he's accustomed to do.

Which at one time it seemed like a dream

Now it's true.

And unknowing

You made it all happen this way.

Did you hear mother

Saying I'm wrong but I know I'm right.

Did you hear father?

Calling my name into the night.

Saying I'll never be what I am now.

Telling me I'll never find what I've already found.

It was they who were wrong

And for them here's a song