Thy Daughter And Thy Darling

No matter how she tries Mandy cannot rationalize How she was dead so many years And now she's back here Everything looks the same Yet somehow changed It's the same, but it's different It's the same, but it's different The houses everywhere And the clothes people wear It all seems the same But very much changed She knocks on the front door Of the home where she was adored By two parents who once Loved her so much And she can't hide her fear When the footsteps come near To the other side of the door And the door starts to pull It's her mom, but she's aged She's different but the same In some fundamental way She's exactly the same Her mom stands first in fear Then she draws Mandy near And she will not let go Not ever, no Her father comes to see What this commotion could be He's slack jawed in shock She's exactly the same! Mandy's mother exclaims But that's not quite the truth Otis hides behind a tooth And he rattles back there The sound abundantly clear Like funeral bells That fill Mandy's skull But why is she Her father starts Why is she alive? Why is she the same age? Why? It's the same, but it's different It's the same, but it's different It's the same, but it's different