Maladjusted Mama

you always pulled my hair
too tightly on my head
and whacked me with the brush
to stop my moving
you never took your time with me
you were always in a rush
your manner never soothing

your big rough hands
are like a man's
and use them them like
you're tough
and every word out of your mouth
is deceitful and gruff

i certainly recoiled from you
all through my growing years
when you're the daughter of a snake
you learn to shed your skin
instead of shedding tears

you let me know
you let me know
you let me know
you hated it
taking care of us kids
because you never got
you never got
to live
so that was our
and that was our sin
the sins of the mother
passed onto the children
so it's no wonder
then the children run wild
i guess that was because i was my daddy's child

you let me know
you let me know
you let me know
i can't do anything right
you let your drunken boyfriends
come to my room in the
middle of the night
you said to me
you said to me
you said just
just get outta my sight
alright
i wish i may
i wish i may
i wish i might


you told me looking in the mirror
was of the devil
you let me go to school
each day disheveled
you said that dancing was a sin
oh yah
revealing the type of mindset
you're in

you said to me
you said to me
you said just
get outta my sight
oh
i wish i may
i wish i may
i wish i might