My Mom Lyrics - Kimya Dawson

have you ever had a dream 

that your favorite baby's drowning 

and you grab him by his sweater sleeve and pull him up on to the ground and 

you can hear the water slosh around inside his tiny gut 

push his belly up and down but he can't cough the water up 

suddenly a flood comes out his mouth till there is nothing left inside of him 

he's empty now 

there isn't even one small breath 

and he goes limp in your arms 

all the people's mouths are moving 

all you hear are car alarms 

and you wake up and start to cry 

I will lose my shit if even one more person I know dies 

so please don't die 

my mom's sick she's in a hospital bed 

I've got a word for all you ghosts in her head 

and all you skeletons in her closet 

leave her alone 

leave her alone 

leave her alone, please 

because my mom needs you gone 

my mom needs you gone 

as long as she is haunted she'll never get strong 

my mom needs you gone 

you traded all your paper clips for a soap dish that way 

your best friend's rubber ducky wouldn't slip and slide away 

but he traded his rubber duck for a cigar box to place your paper clips in 

Mr. Hooper came to say 

"oh my dear friends Bert and Ernie 

here's a little something for each of you from me 

here are your paper clips and here's your rubber ducky 

how could I ignore such selfless generosity?" 

the human body's made up of good and bad bacteria 

but the antibiotics and the antibacterials are killing all the good ones 

and the bad ones just get stronger and become super infections 

it's harder to destroy them and it's harder to detect them 

and there's something in her blood 

and there's something in her leg 

and there's something in her brain