Like A Motherless Child

sometimes i feel like a motherless child,

sometimes i feel like a motherless child,

sometimes i feel like a motherless child,

so far from home.

this was life and this was safer,

always strange, and always stranger

a latent hate but so much later

i’m never safe from all this danger

the demon’s eyes and demon sate her

i was bait but what would bait her?

don’t know my needs, don’t know my way sir

i hide my face no way to face her

this was loss this was my name

this was my truth this was no game

this was not hope this was not sane

and from these broken places made

that was loss and this was later

i wanted less but nothing greater

i couldn’t leave, i couldn’t stay, sir

like a motherless child

sometimes i feel like a motherless child,

sometimes i feel like a motherless child,

sometimes i feel like a motherless child,

so far from home.

this was loss but this was later

always hate but never hate her

i laid in wait, but so much later

i’m never safe from all this danger

the demon’s eyes and demon sate her

i was bait and what would bait her

don’t know my needs, don’t know my way sir

i hide my face no way to face her

this was loss this was my name

this was my truth this was no game

this was not hope this was not sane

and from these broken places made

that was loss and this was later

i wanted less but nothing greater

i couldn’t leave, i couldn’t stay, sir

like a motherless child

sometimes i feel like a motherless child,

sometimes i feel like a motherless child,

sometimes i feel like a motherless child,

so far from home.