Are You My Mother?

Watery eyes and yellow skin Jaundice wasn't too well known back then My father screams, the doctor faints My mother runs before I see her face So I take refuge in the pines And right away, I search the stars for signs I try my best but I can't tell My sense of sight from my sense of smell I try to imitate the thrush's song But my first attempt comes out all wrong The muffled shrieking that escapes my lips Scares even me right back into silence Oh, oh Even lonely cowboys have their trusty steeds Oh, oh Even the Devil has his fellow fiends So tell me what, what's that say about me? I find a flash drive by the thermal spring It has a folder titled "everything" I learn the outer one's the salad fork And that we've already had two world wars I learn a group of goats is called a tribe I learn John Lennon used to beat his wife I learn I'm ugly, I learn I'm poor I learn that no one knows what it's all for That in the scheme of things, we're miniscule Powerful, virtuous, naïve, and cruel I learn that we must reap the seeds we've sown And that Santa never comes when you live alone Oh, oh Even Tyler Durden had his devotees Oh, oh Even the Devil has his fellow fiends So tell me what, what's that say about me? The river freezes when the winter comes The bitter air is a knife lodged in my lungs All the flowers wilt and then they die But all this death reminds me I'm alive Sometimes I wonder if I look like you Cause if I did, I'm not sure what I'd do You gave me passions, gave me preferences Taught me to sin but never taught me what repentance is I'm malicious because I'm miserable But I think that my demands are reasonable A roof above my head, a job that pays A couple friends who never scream and run away And oh, oh Even Charlie Manson had a family Oh, oh Even the Devil has his fellow fiends So tell me what, what's that say about me? About me