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Mother's Mistakes

by Mother's Mistakes

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1.
Message From Rita 08:05
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Open the door leading through the foyer Thought I heard the window breathe Wind was blowing like a thousand voices Heart was beating very loud Kettle was yelling on the kitchen stove Should have told me everything Stars were dying right before my eyes Where had the light of the world gone Rita's getting older every day Doesn't own a clock What she knew, I can't say Her face says it all Screens that trap the fresh air Signs that scream to show the change Cotton dress so neatly kept For a life so well arranged Love makes the world go 'round She never even feels it turn The sun it shines onto the snow And doesn't even feel it burn Surround us, surround us Such pretty hands Surround us Surround us, surround us Such pretty hands Surround us Rita's getting older every day Never gets a break What she knew, I can't say Her jewelry dances 'round her wrist And her lover walks away Her jewelry dances 'round her wrist And her lover walks away Her lover walks away
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Mice 04:46
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The deepest shallow men Pick stuffing from their seams As though they were splitting The filled-up empty men Walk like pails filled to the brim Yet no drop falls See how they run How they run Run See how they run How they run Run The ignorant idea men Speak as a means to silence As a means to obscure The puffed-up humble men Purge ego to swell it How they love to tell it Tell it Mice in suits of men See how they run How they run Run See how they toil To escape toil Toil To escape toil To escape
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Take 05:02
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Take all the shit that they gave ya Take the fresh paint from the walls Take anything that ain't nailed down Take one of the steps out, so somebody falls Take all the rugs and the curtains Take every word as the truth Take the big kickbacks and shortcuts Take it with ice and a glass of vermouth 'Cause you can Make it so But your ego Don't know Giving is easy Taking leaves nothing Something that you'll never get In the end honey Like the strong scent of money Fades and leaves lives to regret Take all the time that is needed Take every nickel and dime Take the path back to my heart dear Back to the scene of the bloodiest crime Take care of you and you only Take your possessions you phony Take your sweet lies, and cold distant eyes Wrap them real tight, and hit that highway So you know the world's there for the taking And just look at the path that you're making If you think that those close to you can't Can't figure you out Then I'd say that you're sadly mistaken Giving is easy Taking leaves nothing Something that you'll never get In the end honey Like the strong scent of money Fades and leaves lives to regret
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Beside Me in the Portrait 07:32
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I tried to listen to what you had to say I stayed in my seat for the entire show But the music swelled and I drifted away Well past the horizon by the credits roll I reached for the place where I remember you are But my hands fell back to my guitar I didn't want this but to my own self I am true And if I couldn't be honest with me I wouldn't be much good to you I stood face to face with you On a planet that circled a fairer sun I sung the constant note in dulcet And rounded the figures to a fairer sum Unfolding the blossom to the bitter bud Drowning paper tigers in a glass of wine I stitched your cuts but shied away When you looked my needle in the eye In my days in the dark I somehow obscured your light Somewhere along the way I learned to wear it But you wore me so thin before you could shine In hopes that I'd become transparent Playing close to my chest, I bet only what I could lose And you wagered everything on a pair of twos I remember you fondly now Those years were never forfeit You will always be with me Beside me in the portrait I stood face to face with you On a planet that circled a fairer sun I sung the constant note in dulcet And rounded the figures to a fairer sum I stood back to back with you In each of our hands, a loaded gun I lied through my teeth for you Because I know one and one cannot make one
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Twice 04:56
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Employ the sky To make the way A crystal road Where freedom lies Your only ship Memory changing Faces new Voices flowing Rain coming down Upon the world And underneath A lonely girl The shell standing In all the heat Hair of gold Tables flowing Love Whispers Twice and flies away Twice and flies away Love Madly Twice and flies away Twice and flies away Skin the drum By the pound The up lives up The down dies down And in the middle Light up the night Bring back the day The apple right Twice as much Twice we spin Twice without Twice within Twice the story Twice inside Pay the ferry For the ride Love Whispers Twice and flies away Twice and flies away Love Madly Twice and flies away Twice and flies away
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Elegy 05:05
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I don't know if I can take the blow Of another day of crumbling decay I'll keep my feet on the ground Not make a sound And stay away from the light of day Hold it Mister Weak, Mister Feet on the Ground You thought you had me, ha ha I caught you didn't I Red hands and salivating Don't want to bite off more than you can swallow Stop in your tracks I see right through you You're nothing but me, reflected You thought you could infect me with impunity But now I purge you, rejected Phew, just let me catch my breath I've been running The world out there I swear It's mind-numbing It's good to have a home It's good to be alone sometimes Because out there is the world And the world is wrong Because the soul of her people Has forgotten its song I cannot be stopped by the likes of you Your legs aren't strong enough Your back will give out What I am is beyond your sight Beyond your grasp You're nothing but my doubt There are things in my past I can't change I tried The stitches failed to mend And you'll keep feeding But I'll keep breathing What I am will never end You know that birds, they only fly away It's a matter of perspective indefinite Time moves in a linear fashion But the human condition moves infinite You and I, we have but little time before it's all over And our stabilities are all abstract We can't afford to stoke idle hearts And regret after the fact That's why I'm singing this darkness dirge It's my elegy of despair My hymn to the self beneath the scowl That I ceaselessly choose to wear I choose to wear
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Work Out 05:17
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What gives you strength? You don't believe Like a flower in winter Takes cover Full of life Searching for truth In reverence of facing The big show Around and around Under us In thunder It will all Work out Grey and delivered Like books on a shelf Stories told to our fathers Deep under crust Where king and queen rule They lay there in waiting For endings Around and around Under us In thunder It will all Work out Angels and demons Angels and ghosts Return to say It will all Work out
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Every Devil 07:31
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Avast, ye bilge rats! Weigh anchor and hoist the mizzen I'll not be caught 'tween the Devil and the deep sea And ye may lay to that Blackbeard, your lessons were harsh and cruel But apt you found your young boatswain For Shakespeare and Shelley, for gold and jewel For fell intent, my dubious fame To the sword with Silver in deadly duel My hook in him is etched in pain And chasing his whale, the obsessive fool My prowess Ahab could not dare to deign Arrogant boy you no doubt believe This curve of iron to be my namesake But I was old when you shortened my sleeve I was Hook 'fore my solace you raked From me mine own wrist did you cleave And my deadly sword hand did you take Tossed to the croc with a careless heave For this I shall make you walk the plank Pan! Wait 'til I get my hook in you On my honor I solemnly swear To dawn the day you'll rue Pan! Your days are numbered and few You cannot escape my wrath forever And here I am ageless too Better perhaps for Hook that he had never been born From the malice in that name I cannot now be torn Like an old boot, it fits better the more it is worn But I never cared for the names mothers use to adorn I grow tired of the killing, plunder and theft Oft I have wondered on my long-delayed death It waits for me just beyond Pan's last breath The only great adventure I have left Run Pan, flee the Jolly Roger Save what Lost Boys you can Else I'll add them to my roster I'll make a graveyard of Neverland You'll see the rage still in this old codger You'll taste what it takes to make a man I'll bring Hell to this place and boil it hotter If it's what I must do to catch Peter Pan! Wait 'til I dig my hook in you Every dog may have his day But every devil must have his due Pan! I'll flay you alive, it's true I'll silence your endless youth If it's the very last thing I do
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Very Far From Me 04:45
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I wish that I could say I've missed you since you've gone But I still haven't recovered completely I'm glad I lost you in the darkness before dawn I can't believe you thought you'd defeat me I think that I have grown since you went away I think these wounds just might heal after all Does it make you mad to think that I'll be okay Does it make you laugh when I fall And if I take a step away from a safe place I expect to see you there And if I falter just a little bit from grace That's all it takes to bring you there You cannot hurt me anymore I know now that you belong very far from me I realize that I have no use For a twisted, worthless, diseased carcass like you Trying to hand-feed me abuse Sometimes I sit and think, and wonder if What if maybe you were still around And if I let down my guard and you came back Would you try to put me underground It's always me I hurt each time I attack No matter where I aim But I must react to the knives you placed in my back Unlike you, I feel pain And if I reach for you in a moment of weakness I expect to see your smile And when you say to me together we can beat this My throat will fill with bile But against me, old friend, you are not defeatless And I will never give in Though I know that only death can complete this I only play to win You cannot hurt me anymore You are not worth me anymore
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Ride the Wind 05:56
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Now that the guns Have all fallen from our hands We’ve stained the soil On every land And though a peace Has now been made Many a soul, have been laid Under the flags of a god we call man Brothers I wish This madness not came We let it play out Now we’re to blame Under a silent, yellow sky We bury hope, and wonder why That all of the spoils we possess Reek in shame Take this gift Floating away Use it as quick as you can Rise to the top Cream of the land Behold us, the kingdom of man Children ignore Everything that you’ve learned Don’t follow me Or you’ll crash and you’ll burn Don’t try to run, just take your time Don’t listen to me, or you’ll fall behind Just ride the wind Down the slow decline
11.
Started Out Like Us 04:12
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I never met anyone like the likes of you A blue eyed beauty queen, and a heart wrecked fool It would be so cliche if it weren't so true Honey I'm so close to heaven, up here on this cloud with you 'Cause I can't breathe, with just a brush from your touch You're so good, at whispering words that sound like love Everyone says we're much too young Some of the greatest love stories ever told Started out like us Started out like us Mama said, don't tie my heart down just yet 'Cause fifteen don't know, enough about what comes next Hollywood's missing a starlet, and I'm the luckiest man alive People can say what they wanna baby I'm not going to even think twice 'Cause I can't breathe, with just a brush from your touch You're so good, at whispering words that sound like love And everyone says we're much too young Some of the greatest love stories ever told Started out like us Started out like us

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released June 1, 2013

©2016 Quadrivalent. Recorded, mixed and mastered at Biscuit Bend Studio. ASCAP. All rights reserved.

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Mother's Mistakes Albany, New York

Progressive rock from New York's capital region. Fans of Porcupine Tree, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, and Yes will find something they love in Mother's Mistakes:

From the minds of two homeless doomsday prophets, words that were first scrawled on sandwich boards and sounds that began in overtaxed guts. Heed their lessons, hard-earned from ordeal and ordure alike. ... more

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