Only A Mother - Cherry Ghost

Pouring the tea with a limb

Broken clean in the struggle

Too fair an age

For this war that we wage

In the rubble

A tender old tyrant

To fend off the dawn as we sleep late

And end up here punchline

That falls to the floor

Like a dead weight

Tides will turn

And in time I’ll learn to love

What only a mother could

Only a mother could

Black broken no joke

Go twos on the last smoking show me A night laced with lies

That could cradle the cries

Of the lonely

Tides will turn

And in time I’ll learn to love

What only a mother could

Only a mother could

Like a hound dog that’s tailing its prey

Like a night that dissolves into day

I will conquer every heartbeat on the way

The tip of your tongue seemed to promise

Some fresh pearl of wisdom

Try as I might boy

You keep them hidden depths

Well hidden

Tides will turn

And in time I’ll learn to love

What only a mother could

Only a mother could

What only a mother could

Only a mother

Only a mother

Only a mother

Only a mother