Nightlight

As I slept they caught me in the garden The apple still dissolving on my tongue You didn't wake me up and so I had to run from Adam and Eve and the atom bomb Mama! In reaching for the rope he cast to save me I learned to see a noose was all he hung For passage from a ghost into a baby But the womb is just an iron lung Mama! There's no escape, prisoner of time A really big mistake, the curving of your spine The choice you're forced to make, the accidental crime The sentence that you pass when you give life Mama, don't forget to turn on the nightlight Mama, don't forget to turn on the nightlight Mama, don't forget to turn on the nightlight Mama, don't forget to turn on the nightlight