My Mother’s House

Lyrics

How can you say that you're sorry and sad When you can't understand why death makes you mad It's seems that for some life is a facade And for those folks life is easy and death is so hard In my mother's house I can recall When we would get hurt from a stumble or fall She'd kiss the bruise and the hurt went away But the pain would come back some other day And I wish I could go back to my mother's house Back to my mother's house Where she made her vows to love and stay with me A turtle has a shell to hide But people they have their own shells inside And when we get frightened and hurt and afraid Our shells we crawl into and we pull down the shades But inside the shell there was a heart And it's time to start taking the shell apart And when we have a heart once more Then we've shattered the shell that once we wore And I wish I could go back to my mother's house Back to my mother's house Where she made her vows to love and stay with me Well it's hard to be able to comprehend That life is on borrowed time, but time we can't lend For ending is good for those who repent But dust is to dust and the dust blows away How can you say that you're sorry and sad When you can't understand why death makes you mad And it seems for some life is a facade And for those folks life is easy and death is so hard And I wish I could go back to my mother's house Back to my mother's house Where she made her vows to love and stay with me To love and stay with me