Mother and Father

Disasters everywhere
Run for the hills
Mother natures hands are slippery
She wants blood
But she's clumsy
So she spills
Spills all over this God green Earth
That's the truth

Yes it hurts
Little Becky
Bobby
Sue
You can't run far
Because everywhere
She still sees you
She walks beneath you
As you run above
Mother nature
Care to show some love
Well I take that back
We fucked up first
We polluted your waters
And wondered why we thirst
We chopped down trees
And smoke them
And now we can't breath
We turned you against yourself
Made new animals and new plants to help
What?
We're slowly destroying ourselves
Well

We struck the first blow
But we came from the earth
And like that we grow
So who's to blame
Mother is her name
But we treat her like a leper
No one wants to touch her
Love her
Do nothing but fuck her
We fucked up her face
Built gray not green
Cause we're living the so called dream
She dreams too
Not of red white nor blue
But of green fields and white mountain tops
Night sky and clouds giving rain drops
Honor thy mother and father
He's in Heaven so we are taught
I'll get to that later
Hold that thought
She has been left here to watch her children grow
Get big grow strong and come back to her below
Why is she treated this way

We wake up each morning
Embrace the day
And don't thank her
Thank her for not dying
Thank her for trying
To survive our harsh acts
Now lets get past that
Elevate up
Because he's up there
No in fact our father is here
In us with us walking with us all
During the world series or the fight in the hall
He's with us waiting
Waiting for recognition
Hey dad thanks for those things that you've given
The morning breath
The morning sight
The morning sun
Or the moonlight
We take this for granted
I can't understand it
Why we are building up on top of old
Instead of leaving the past with our cold

Shoulder
Why not restore things like we do on computers
To back when that was a school not hooters
I haven't picked up a Bible but can tell you this
That yes in this year 2006
We live in blissful ignorance
We are dying
Our mother and father are crying
And no one is trying to help comfort them
13 years I spent in a suit and tie
Went to school dedicated to a man that died
So we wouldn't
But we continue still
To pop those pills
To seek cheap thrills
And make harmful deals
What's wrong
What's wrong
With this world today
Look up into the sky
The sky is grey
It's supposed to be blue
I can blame that on both me and you

Mother father I have cried at night
Asking why I have such sight
But have been told to be blind
Because I don't see with my eyes
Instead with my mind and my heart used as glasses
So I guess you can screw ya 20 20
I can see plenty
Father help us
Mother protect us
From us
For us
Before there are no longer any
Of us