Pretenders - Every Mother's Son Lyrics

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I was born with my hand in a fist

And my eyes shut tight.

Any wonder that I cannot resist

Punching blindly in a fight.

First time I saw swans flying to the sun

I wanted to be one.

Like every mother's son

When I saw my life had begun

I wanted to be someone

Like my brother

My one and only father

And like every mother's son.

I was raised within a cause

With a purpose to fulfill.

I was taught to defend what was mine

And instructed not to kill.

My small mortal eyes can see eternity.

In the clouds that dissolve and then regroup endlessly.

Like every mother's son

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When a man showed me how to use a gun

I wished I'd never needed one

Like my brother

My one and only father

And like every mother's son.

Everything in domesticity

Assumes it's role better than me.

I'm a displaced person whose culture let me down.

I raise my own daughters in a pornographic town

Like every mother's son

I've lost some and some I've won

Now I'm waiting for a new dawn

Like my brother

My one and only father

And like every mother's son.

Clark Chang / cchchang@princeton.edu

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K.caulfield@chemistry.unimelb.edu.au and annehi@MICROSOFT.com for their

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