The Same Father

(Marcella Detroit, Michael Graves)

I worked so hard to get this far

A lifetime doing service

Can't stand a change or difference

It makes me feel so nervous

I've worn this wound for centuries

I look so good in my bandage

Of childhood games and fallacies

I save whatever i can manage

This is my life, this is my lot

It's not much, but it's all i've got

I won't let you take it away!

We're different shades

We're chalk and clay

We're fire and we're water

Don't talk to me of innocence

I lost it and forgot it

Ever since you came around

There's chaos in my order

I'm much too blind to ever see

We're all from the same father, father

I used to be good-looking

But my face became distorted

Something in my body hurts

I don't know how i got it

Looks like the devil's work to me

We were so simple and so clean

I won't let you take it from me!

We're different shades

We're chalk and clay

We're fire and we're water

Don't talk to me of innocence

I lost it and forgot it

Ever since you came around

There's chaos in my order

I'm much too blind to ever see

We're all from the same father, father...

They gave this gift to me, my

Mother's, mother's, mother's mother's family;

We love what we believe

You're lost if you can't see it!