Story Behind The Song

This song shows a glimpse into my relationship with my mother. My mother hated me from the moment I was born and told me so many times over my childhood years. Society would not believe me when I tried to tell them of the beatings, of the derision, the

Song Description

Life's Blood is a song about abandonment, neglect and the vicious soul-stealing of a narcissistic mother to her daughter. The song does not pull punches or try to find a bright side of the dark woman who the author was forced to call 'mother.' Instead,

Lyrics

LIFE'S BLOOD

Star light, star bright

First star I see tonight

I wish I may, I wish I would

Oh if only I could

I'd wish for the return

Of my life's blood.


Ol' Mother Hubbard don't have no bone for me

And Tom, Tom the piper's son put his pig where I couldn't see.

They know that I'm losin' my life's blood ev'ry day.

It's that reverse transfusion that makes me that way.


Momma drank deep, Momma took it all

When I tried to sleep I only seemed to fall

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Deeper and deeper into the mist

No fairy godmother, no Prince tried to kiss

She took and she took and when there was no more,

She shook up my porridge and drank the gore.

If she'd kept on takin', I'd be no more.




Some would've called her a succubus

But that would've made way too much fuss.

Some would've called her the Witch of the West

I had to call her "Mom" 'cause I knew her best.

And so I go


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What's that I hear you say?

I shouldn't talk about fairy tales that way?

Fairy tales are written in blood you know.

Those ol' Grimm brothers told us so.

And so I go

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