Mother I remember you
All ringed with roses and laurel
Thanks for teaching me those words
I couldn't save you from your sorrow
Oh please close your eyes and wait to begin
You'll wake up in your brand new skin
Show me out some different way
Slide through that tomorrow
If it vanishes like haze
Your old life it's just borrowed
Oh to close your eyes and wait to begin
You'll wake up in your brand new skin
Now whatever falls away
Whatever is dross
Whatever fills the grave
Whatever gets lost
Hold it all up to the light
When it's all wrecked and scarred
All that chrome touch-up paint
well it won't take you far