01 Somebody's Mother

She sits there drinking
What does the picture represent?
The TV scandal
Could make or break out in a sweat
She watches it try to make her feel part of something she never was
She sings a song that her father whistled while he worked
It helps her relax
A mild depression keeps her down
But she keeps smiling
The radio bleats that happy sound
The music nullifies all her fears with words driven by the pain
She's happy now she thinks that really nothing could go wrong
All this waiting
All for nothing
Routine living
Looks so living
Routine living
Merely wasting away
This life she's living
Is an extension of a kill
The formal conscience
Imposed by those who never felt the pain
A tedious drudgery
Boredom relish is lonely
And it's not right that this way of life should go on