Patty Griffin - Mother Of God Lyrics
All you kids get out the back doorIve never seen her this bad beforeShe took all her favorite things down from the windowAnd broke em all over her clean floorIts saturday at the mansionThe oldest boy walks with a slouchThe young ones are wild in back of the houseAnd she gave up and went back to sleep on the couchSomething as simple as boys and girlsGets tossed all around and then lost in the worldSomething as hard as a prayer on your backCan wait a long time for an answerWhen I was little Id stare at her pictureAnd talk to the mother of godI swear sometimes Id see her lips moveLike she was trying to say something to meWhen I was eighteen I moved to florida,Like everyone sick of the cold does,And I waited on old people waiting to dieI waited on them until I wasSomething as simple as boys and girlsGets tossed all around and then lost in the worldSomething as hard as a prayer on your backCan wait a long time for an answerSo Im wearing my footsteps into this floorOne day I wont live here anymoreSomeone will wonder who lived here beforeAnd went on their wayI live too many miles from the oceanAnd Im getting older and oddI get up every morning with a black cup of coffeeAnd I talk to the mother of godSomething as simple as boys and girlsGets tossed all around and then lost in the worldSomething as hard as a prayer on your backCan wait a long time for an answer...Can wait a long time for an answer
