Pouring the tea with a limb
Broken clean in the [bad word] 
Too fair an age
For this war that we wage in [bad word] 

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
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