Mother Father

[00:18.71] Mother father please explain to me
[00:22.19] Why a world so full of mystery
[00:25.98] A place so bitter and still so sweet
[00:29.86] So beautiful and yet so full of sad sad
[00:33.65] Mother father please explain to me
[00:37.40] Why forests march to deserts be
[00:41.55] While snow capped mountains melt away
[00:45.42] What do we tell our babies
[00:47.49] What do we say
[00:50.85] Mother father please explain to me
[00:54.12] How a man who rocks his child to sleep
[00:57.43] Yet pulls the trigger on his brother's heart
[01:00.84] He digs a hole right to the middle of a storm of hatred
[01:06.79] Mother father please explain to me
[01:09.95] How it could be so this world has come to be
[01:13.89] A precious balance in between
[01:16.95] Such cruelty and such kindness please please
[01:21.74] Mother father please explain to me
[01:25.29] How this world has come to be
[01:29.20] Unequalled in her blessings oh i see
[01:33.46] Unbridled hatred so extreme please tell me
[01:38.75] Mother father please explain to me
[01:42.12] How the world has come to be so
[01:46.63] Twisted between time and dreams
[01:49.76] Oh mother father please explain to me
[01:57.56] What's all this talk about
[02:01.66] All this talk about it
[02:05.21] Spinning down down down down down
[02:09.77] All this talk about
[02:13.10] All these words without
[02:16.89] And nothing done
[02:18.77] Mother father do you know
[02:22.29] Why one mans belly overflows
[02:25.58] Another sleeps in hungers bed
[02:29.12] We'd trade our world for a piece of bread
[02:33.22] Mother father please explain to me
[02:37.58] How this rare worlds come to be
[02:41.46] A place so full of color yet overflowing always
[02:45.34] In black and white black and white
[02:48.07] Drowning in the waters of our
[02:50.21] Mother father please explain to me
[02:53.86] How the world has come to be
[02:57.38] While still blessed in all the things we see
[03:01.47] Such a sad sad home for you and me
[03:07.55] Com on
[03:08.64] Come on out
[03:10.45] Come on out you
[03:11.30] Come on out you
[03:12.28] Come on out you save yourself
[03:14.44] Come on out you
[03:15.49] Come on out you
[03:17.24] Come on out you
[03:17.88] We're taking on water
[03:18.72] Taking on water
[03:19.77] We're taking on water
[03:21.06] But we've got the freedom
[03:23.66] We've got the freedom
[03:29.32] There's no god above
[03:31.76] No hell below
[03:33.94] It's here with us
[03:35.52] It's up to us
[03:36.84] To keep afloat oh
[03:45.80] Mother father please explain to me
[03:48.20] How this world has come to be
[03:49.32] How we've come to this oh
[03:51.03] Mother father please explain to me
[03:57.93] How this world has come to be
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