Oh My My Lyrics - Jane Siberry

Everything you say, everything you do 

Will come back to stand with you 

Everything you trust, everything you feel 

Will come back to kneel with you 

Oh my 

Oh my my 

Everything you say, everything you try 

Will come out sounding like a lie 

Everything you trust, everything you know 

Will turn to dust, will blow away 

I'm cracking, I'm cracking, cracking 

I'm cracking into a thousand pieces 

Open up your eyes 

Mama, mama please come quick 

Something's wrong, I'm feeling sick 

Mama, mama, I'm in a mess 

I can't lose this heaviness 

I can't lose this heaviness 

Oh my, oh my my my 

Oh my, oh my 

Oh my my my 

Oh my, oh mother 

Mary had a little lamb 

Little lamb, little lamb 

Mary had a little lamb 

Its fleece was, oh 

Mama, mama, I searched these hills for my sweet lamb 

I carried myself up the mountain and five men came out 

And I laid myself down and I looked around 

And I couldn't find my sweet lamb 

I'm looking for my bottom line 

And as soon as I find it 

I'm gonna turn my life around 

Oh my, oh my my my 

Oh my mother 

Oh my, oh my my my 

Oh my brother 

You're floating in a harbor in the middle of the night 

And you're looking all around you, and you can't see any light 

And the black and starless heavens weigh down upon your soul 

And you face the open sea, and you're not sure that you wanna go 

And you scan the horizon, but the only light you find 

Is in the place you came from, the place you left behind 

Oh, so you're moving out, moving out 

Moving out, cutting the cords 

You don't know where you're going 

And you don't have any maps 

And the only thing you're sure of 

Is you ain't going back 

One, you will be born into a strange and desolate place 

Two, it will be called the average home 

Three, the times will be restless and full of uncertainty 

Four, you will silently question this of your mother 

As you watch her move away 

Oh, precious candles 

Your light is your own 

Is life not precious? 

Your light is your own 

Mama, mama, please come quick 

Take me home from school, I feel so sick 

Mama mama, something's wrong 

My heart is breaking, but I don't know why 

Oh my, oh my my my 

Oh my mother 

Oh my, oh my my my 

Oh my brother 

Five, there will be no answer 

Six, you will begin the long process of shutting down 

Seven, your countenance will reflect less light 

And later when you look at pictures of yourself you will wonder 

Eight, you will give up your backbone to the T.V. 

And accept a value system 

Nine, putting forth lies, hatred, and intolerance 

In the name of love as acceptable 

Ten, no one will step forward from the shadows saying 

"Expect this, it is part of the path" 

Eleven, you will discover drugs and alcohol 

Twelve, you will instinctively move towards your own bottom line 

Precious candles 

Your light is your own 

Precious candles 

Your light is your own 

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea 

And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee 

Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff 

And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff 

Mama, mama, please come quick 

Hold my head, I feel so sick 

Mama, mama, let me come home 

Wrap me up I can't get warm 

Oh my, oh my my my 

Oh my mother 

Oh my, oh my my my 

Oh my brother 

Thirteen, you will rush headlong towards your bottom line 

In an instinctive attempt to heal 

Fourteen, you will go to AA to learn what you should have learned 

In Sunday school 

Fifteen, and then you will give yourself permission to cry 

And you will cry and cry and cry 

Sixteen, and your friends will move away nervously 

And you'll feel like a fool 

Seventeen, and no one will step forward from the shadows saying 

Eighteen, "The journey forward includes movement into despair" 

Nineteen, and you will be gathering strength 

Twenty, even as you don't understand 

Twenty-one, and certain words like love and 

Twenty-two, integrity will be drawn into your spine 

Twenty-three, and then one day 

Twenty-four, you will turn off the T.V. 

Precious candles 

Your light is your own 

Precious candles 

Your light is your own 

Mama, mama something's wrong 

There's only silence where there once was song 

I keep hearing all these bells 

Am I healing or dying? I can't tell 

Hey ho, hey ho, hey ho, sail on out 

And sail all night, sail on with all your might 

Land ahead, land ho 

Land ho, land ho 

Mama, mama 

Precious candles 

Your light is your own 

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea 

And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee 

One gray night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more 

And Puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar 

I sure miss that little lamb 

That little lamb called Puff 

Or was it Poof? Well, anyways 

I sure miss that sweet lamb 

Lay down upon your pillow 

Just give all you can 

Knowing that's all you have to give 

Mama, mama, I almost did it 

I almost carried myself up the mountainside 

In my own arms 

And laid myself down 

There a new strength nearby, I know 

And as soon as I find my bottom line 

I'm gonna turn my life around 

I sure miss that little lamb 

Oh, here I go, here I go, here I go 

Here I go, here I go, here I go 

Here I go, here I go, here I go 

Here I go, here I go, here I go