Every Mother's Son Lyrics - Last Of The Independents - Pretenders

I was born with my hand in a fist 

And my eyes shut tight 

Any wonder that I cannot resist 

Punchin' blindly in a fight 

The first time I saw swans flyin' to the sun 

I wanted to be one 

Like every mother's son 

When I saw my life had begun 

I wanted to be someone 

Like my brother and my one and only father 

And like every mother's son 

I was raised within a cause 

With a purpose to fulfill 

I was taught to defend what was mine 

And instructed not to kill 

My small mortal eyes can see eternity 

In the clouds that dissolve and then regroup endlessly 

Like every mother's son 

When a man showed me how to use a gun 

I wished I'd never need one 

Like my brother and my one and only father 

And like every mother's son 

Everything in domesticity 

Assumes its role better than me 

I'm a displaced person whose culture let me down 

I raise my own daughters in a pornographic town 

Like every mother's son 

I've lost some and some I've won 

Now I'm waiting for a new dawn 

Like my brother and my one and only father 

And like every mother's son