Mother / Oh Mein Papa - Siouxsie And The Banshees

The word you learn to love the disapproval that you hate that’s mother from

mother

They teach you to respect… makes you always want to please mother mother

The one who keeps you warm the one who keeps you warm and shelters you from

harm and shelters you from harm watch out she’ll stunt your mind she’ll open up your mind 'til you emulate her kind to You good and make you kind is that mother?

mother

Downstairs i don’t know downstairs i don’t know if it’s the springs in her bed

why i feel safe in my bed or her joints i hear when i know i’m alone creaking

overhead she must be watching overhea

Her mother

She’ll twist the words you speak she’ll kiss and say goodbye if she thinks

you’re near escape if you want to go away mother mother

So she clutches at her brood so she gathers up her brood and sits across its

face and smiles into their face she sucks up all its energy she beams down

vital energy and smothers their last breat

Gave us out first breath oh mother mother

The thing you grow to hate the love you won’t forget