Spoonboy - The Mamas And The Papas lyrics

I will be with my mom at the end of her life* As I know that she would be for mine It's not obligation that leads me to say it It's just how i intend to spend the time No person who gives out a part of themselves Will ever be truly forgotten These parts will change hands And they surpa** lifespans Alive as long as they are pa**ed along I remember the parts pa**ed to me And after she's gone I will remember my mom My mother sat like a book on the shelf Through the cold autumn years of her life Replaying her memories like a tape on repeat Over and over in her mind She'd always been the kind of a mother Who would put others before herself This much i know There were men in her life Who took well advantage before they got up to go Imagine all of your memories of mistakes that you made Played over in your mind like the loop of a tape Do my mother's regrets, for which she lost rest Do they keep you awake at night? Could you tell me that father? Do your memories haunt you, sir? Or are you content with what you left behind? I will be with my mom at the end of her life But sir i will not be for yours You've done nothing to earn it and frankly You don't deserve it, so you won't be receiving that reward There are people who's names are pa**ed down generations And sir, yours is not one of them Consider it a consequence of a mistake that you made For which there will never be amends How is that for a memory to keep you awake? There are parts that you gave to me But there are parts of us all, i think That are better off left behind There are parts of us all that are better left to die