Care, Give or Take
Octothorpe and the Aglets
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It's going to be a day when my mom dies It's going to be a fucking day No one left to proselytize her life lessons My dad will throw all of her possessions away And I will dig through the scrapbooks she'll have left behind And I will cling to every good memory I'll find Because the only ones not stowed away are the ones where I'm unkind And I'll inherit the no-longer needed, so long since heeded, chronicles of our lives My dad will get a single bed 'cause he'll be single and half-dead And the king'll need some rest from lifelong wives But I don't think I'll be able to sleep on her queen-sized mattress side Cuz part of me will feel like I'm the one who killed her Part of me will feel like I'm the one who died Part of me will feel like I'm the one who killed her I should be the one who dies It's going to be a day when my mom dies It's going to be a fucking day When time becomes concrete, cementing all my lies And steamrolls every chance I have to reconcile with her lifeless clay And the guilt will start to bear down and break me loose And all I've built will start to tear down My wrecking crews will try to fortify my iffy fort, but it will be no use For if to family is to strengthen one, then I recluse What kind of person shuns unconditional love What kind of person shuns traditional love What kind of person shuns unconditional love Just the worst one - and I am that person I am the worst son It's gonna be a day when my mom dies It's gonna be a fucking day. I will cry and cry and cry and cry and try to apologize, but I'll never get a chance to say I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry But no one will hear me, and no one will care Is this conjecture of her death romanticized Should I expect to be bereft of standardized emotion Not agonize over devotion, with no one left to antagonize I'll be angry, because I've won, which means she's won And there's no point now, with the challenge gone Because there's no pride in this kind of victory; there's no pride at all There's no pride at all When that day in question appears, I'll question through tears, everything I know as real I will begin to put things introperspective, but in the end, who knows how I'll feel Will I regret never have given birth Or not yet understanding what that's worth Will I upset anyone I put on Earth Or is my karmic calling to experience love's dearth Who else will I pointedly wound by laying nothing on the line And if my focus on maternal seems entirely eternal, well, no offense, Dad We were fine
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