The Same Father Lyrics - Singles - Detroit Marcella

(Marcella Detroit, Michael Graves) 

I worked so hard to get this far 

A lifetime doing service 

Can't stand a change or difference 

It makes me feel so nervous 

I've worn this wound for centuries 

I look so good in my bandage 

Of childhood games and fallacies 

I save whatever i can manage 

This is my life, this is my lot 

It's not much, but it's all i've got 

I won't let you take it away! 

We're different shades 

We're chalk and clay 

We're fire and we're water 

Don't talk to me of innocence 

I lost it and forgot it 

Ever since you came around 

There's chaos in my order 

I'm much too blind to ever see 

We're all from the same father, father 

I used to be good-looking 

But my face became distorted 

Something in my body hurts 

I don't know how i got it 

Looks like the devil's work to me 

We were so simple and so clean 

I won't let you take it from me! 

We're different shades 

We're chalk and clay 

We're fire and we're water 

Don't talk to me of innocence 

I lost it and forgot it 

Ever since you came around 

There's chaos in my order 

I'm much too blind to ever see 

We're all from the same father, father... 

They gave this gift to me, my 

Mother's, mother's, mother's mother's family; 

We love what we believe 

You're lost if you can't see it!