Mother Father

Mother Father please explain to me

Why the world's so full of mystery

A place so bitter and still so sweet

So beautiful and yet so full of sad, sad

Mother Father please explain to me

Why forests march to deserts be

Why snow capped mountains melt away

What do we tell our babies, what do we say

Oh

Mother Father please explain to me

How a man rocks his child to sleep

Pulls the trigger on his brother's heart

He digs a hole right to the middle of his storm of hatred

Mother Father please explain to me

How it could be so this world has come to be

A precious balance in between

Such cruelty and such kind

Please, please

Mother Father please explain to me

How this world has come to be

Unequaled in her blessings, oh I see

Unbridled hatred so extreme

Please tell me

Mother Father please explain to me

How this world has come to be so

Twisted between time and dreams

Oh Mother Father please explain to me

Oh what's all this talk about

All this talk about it

Spilling down, down, down, down, down

All this talk about

Endless words without

Nothings done

Mother Father do you know

Why one man's belly overflows

Another sleeps in hunger's bed

Oh, we trade our world for a piece of bread

Oh

Mother Father please explain to me

How this rare world's come to be

A place so full of color

and yet overflowing always in black and white

Drowning in the waters of our

Mother Father please explain to me

How this world has come to be

But still blessed in all the things we see

Such a sad, sad home for you and me

C'mon, adult

C'mon not you, c'mon not you

Come a save yourself

C'mon I'll do

C'mon, we're taken on water

We're taken on water, we're taken on water

But you know

We got the freedom!

We got the freedom!

There's no god above and no hell below

It's here with us, It's up to us

To keep afloat

How this sweet world has come to be

Oh, to keep afloat

Mother Father please explain to me!

How this rare world has come to be

Oh, the blue planet, the blue planet

Mother Father please explain to me

Mother Father please explain