Mother Father Songtext / Lyric

Mother father please explain to me

why a world so full of mystery

a place so bitter and still so sweet

so beautiful and yet so full of sad sad

Mother father please explain to me

why forests march to deserts be

while snow capped mountains melt away

what do we tell our babies

what do we say

Mother father please explain to me

how a man who rocks his child to sleep

yet pulls the trigger on his brother's heart

he digs a hole right to the middle of a storm of hatred

Mother father please explain to me

how it could be so this world has come to be

a precious balance in between

such cruelty and such kindness please please

Mother father please explain to me

how this world has come to be

unequalled in her blessings oh i see

unbridled hatred so extreme please tell me

Mother father please explain to me

how the world has come to be so

twisted between time and dreams

oh mother father please explain to me

What's all this talk about

all this talk about it

spinning down down down down down

all this talk about

all these words without

and nothing done

Mother father do you know

why one mans belly overflows

another sleeps in hungers bed

we'd trade our world for a piece of bread

Mother father please explain to me

how this rare worlds come to be

a place so full of color yet overflowing always

in black and white black and white

drowning in the waters of our

Mother father please explain to me

how the world has come to be

while still blessed in all the things we see

such a sad sad home for you and me

Com on

come on out

come on out you

come on out you

come on out you save yourself

come on out you

come on out you

come on out you

we're taking on water

taking on water

we're taking on water

but we've got the freedom

we've got the freedom

There's no god above

no hell below

it's here with us

it's up to us

to keep afloat oh

Mother father please explain to me

how this world has come to be

how we've come to this oh

mother father please explain to me

how this world has come to be