What did you think would happen, Mother?
Did you think you'd free your flesh from the fire?
And where did you think you'd go, Mother?
Trading your skins for scanes divine
Did you think you would ever get stuck in the first place
Picking the shards of glass out of your lovely face, Mother?
Left my love in the ocean
Left my love in the sea
What did you think would happen, Mother?
Were you aware of how the years had come and gone?
And where did you think you'd go, Mother?
Spinning your wheels through the dark streets of the town?
Do you wish that the days would get on with
Their endings and night would play nicely with the shadows in your blue eyes?
And what did you think we would do?
Did you think we would pray to the gods of his lies?
And where did you think we would go, Mother?
Did you think we'd retreat to the Mecca inside your mind?
I left my love in the ocean
I left my love in the sea
Left my love in the cold embrace of an October afternoon
I left my love in the sea
Is that what you wanted to happen?
Or do you just wish
We would all put down roots?
Roots in the Stone