Who is this hurting mother?

I don’t want to be her now

Who in the hell’s that sad reflection?

How did I lose myself?

How many times I walk the river

Wondering what life’s for?

Sobbing beneath the staid performance

Too scared to let it out

Duty calls… duty calls…

Who is this hurting daughter

Going down the rabbit hole?

Falling into a crushing darkness

Shedding skins of the soul

How many times I walk the river

Wanting to lose myself?

Weight of an overcoat of sorrow

Too sensitive for this world

Duty calls… duty calls…

Time to do the drop off

Time to make the meals

Time to greet the neighbors

Be a perfect ten

Smile on the exterior

Nervous and distressed

Plodding on this treadmill

Take another pill

Start another morning (I don’t want to go)

Wake to the alarm

Rise up in the darkness (I don't want to live this)

Get inside the car

Join the rank and file (I don't want this life)

Thousands in the flow

Minnows on the freeway (I don't want to go)

On and on it goes…

There is more than this

There is more than this

There is more

There is more

Who is that serious child

The one left alone?

Mother is in the kitchen crying again

No use to ask for help

So it goes... so it goes