Dean Friedman - Song For My Mother Lyrics
By dean friedmanIn 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 thenOf 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 its 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, mommys resting.And how was I to know, so young, it wasnt something I had done?So please try and understand, I will love you as I can.I do not blame you; youre not guilty.But still theres no way to describe the relief I finally foundUpon learning it was you, and not me, that was crazy.
