I Can Be Your Mother

The pulse of sleep is sucking at my eyes

I’m nursing it like a baby while it sucks me dry

And I’m staying up talking to a phone like god

And like a mother, there is never respite

I’m sinking my hands into the piano like mud

I’m hoping and praying that I get stuck

I’m staying up talking to a phone like god

I’m resisting the trip while I’m falling in love

Cause you choose which one you want to rule you the best

A man or the never ending desire of success

I know which one is in my bed tonight

Dinner’s on the table with a pen and a knife

The meal tastes like paper and ink and pain

The words are different but the song’s always the same

And while I’m seated and while I write and chew

I try to not make the song about you

I can be your mother

I can be a dream

I can make it look like it never happened

Leave it clean

Oh I could be your friend

Or I could be on my back

I could beg or I could bully

I could brace you for impact

Oh I could be counterfeit

I could be real

I could be the wound in your neck you tell your friends you can heal

I could be 500 virgins

I could be 500 whores

I could be anything anything anything

But yours

You read to me quietly on the window sill

Our bodies will never be close enough if they tried, which they will

You either keep a close eye or a closed eye on it

I watch myself while I ride the emotional dick

Cause you choose which one you want to fuck you in place

A man or the the ache in your legs backstage

I know which one gets me on my knees

Gripping my hair like I’m made of sheets

The voice in my ear says “remember the bet”

I’m nodding at nothing, I’m holding my breath

Remember remember remember the bet

His love feels like a threat

I can be your mother

I can be mad

I could talk utter bullshit or I could be matter of fact

Oh I could be broken

Or I could be whole

I could be something to fix in your New Year’s resolution goal

Oh I could be an angel

I could be a jerk

Make a plan to save me, you can choose if you want it to work

(save me, save me, baby)

I could be a purity to ruin

Corrupt for you to restore

I could be anything anything anything but yours

I can be your mother

I can be your dad

I could be the family that you always wished you had

I could be a kiss

I could be a hit

Lemme know if you ever figure out the difference

Oh I could a fact

I could be a lie

I could be the truth you search for your whole life but never find

I could be your bravado

I could be gone tomorrow

I could be anything, anything, anything, anything,