Prodigal Son

Did you think that you were better; somehow better than me?
You come here with your arms thrown
wide. . . like that means anything to me
Did you think 'cause you're a big
man now you can take what isn't yours
You come here in your righteousness and you think that opens doors

You've just come running back like a prodigal son
Just like a prodigal son

Did you miss the one that pushed
you out, that womb that gave you life?
Did you come to see my father's grave or the man who took his wife?
You don't know what I could have been but for an accident of birth
But I got only what I could take and you were given God's own earth

And you come running back like a prodigal son
And think you can finish what we have begun
The cradle will rock and the cradle will fall
And I gave nothing but you gave it all

Did you somehow feel neglected? Did it leave you wanting more?
God, they raised you up like Jesus
Christ and then they branded me the whore
They say when you get desperate... well, you'd do anything for pride
And I've got your little secret, dear, oh yeah, I've carried it inside
So you'd come

You'd come back like a prodigal son
And think you can finish what we have begun
The cradle will rock and the cradle will fall
And I gave nothing but you gave it all

You come back like a prodigal son
And think you can finish what we have begun
The cradle will rock and the cradle will fall
And I gave nothing but I took it all

Did you think that you were better; somehow better than me?
You come here with your arms thrown
wide... like that means anything to me
You think 'cause you're a big man
now, oh, you can take what isn't yours
You come here in your righteousness and you think that opens doors
Oh yeah, you think that opens doors
Oh yeah, you think that opens doors
Oh yeah, you think that opens doors
Oh yeah, you think that opens doors
Oh yeah, you think that opens doors
Oh yeah, you think that opens doors