Mother, father please explain to me
Why a world 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 desert speed
While snowcapped mountains melt away
What do we tell our babies, when do we say? Oh
Mother, father please explain to me
How a man who rocks his child to sleep
Pulls the trigger on his brother's heart?
He digs a hole right to the middle of this 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 kindness 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
Spinning down, down, down, down, down
All this talk about
Endless words without
Nothing's done
Mother, father do you know
While 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 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
While still blessed in all the things we see
Such a sad, sad home for you and me
Come out you, and hold
Come on out you
Come on out you
Come and save yourself
Come on out you
Come on we're taking the water
We're takin' the water
We're takin' the water
But you know
We got the freedom
We got the freedom
There's no God above
And no hell below
Oh, 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, let the blue planet
Let the blue planet
Mother, father please explain to me
Mother, father please explain
Mother Father
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All Along The Watchtower Alligator Pie American Baby American Baby (Intro) American Baby Intro American Baby Intro [DVD] An' Another Thing Angel Baby Bartender Busted stuff Christmas Song Cigarette Lit Crash Crazy Crush Crush [Live] Dancing Nancies Digging a ditch Dodo Down By The River Dreamgirl Dreams Of Our Fathers Eh Hee Everybody Wake Up (Our Finest Hour Arrives) Everyday Fool to Think Funny The Way It Is Grace Is Gone Grave Digger Grave Digger(Acoustic) Gravedigger Gravedigger [Acoustic] Gravedigger [Acoustic] Gravedigger [Live] Grey Blue Eyes Hunger for the Great Light I Did It If I Had It All In My Life Iwoya Little Red Bird Louisiana Bayou Loving Wings My Heart Is Yours Oh Old Dirt Hill (Bring That Beat Back) One Sweet World Out of My Hands Out of My Hands [Live] Raven Satellite Save Me Save Me [Live] Say Goodbye Shake Me Like A Monkey Sleep To Dream Her Smooth Rider So Damn Lucky So Damn Lucky [DVD] So Damn Lucky [Live] So Right Some Devil Squirm Stand Up (For It) Stay Stay Or Leave Stay or Leave (accurate) Steady as We Go Still Water Stolen Away on 55th & 3rd The Fly The Maker [Live] The Space Between Too High Too Much Tremendous Brunettes Trouble Two Step Typical Situation Up And Away Waste What You Are When The World Ends When the World Ends [Live] Where Are You Going You & Me You Might Die Trying You Never Know
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