Lion's Mane

Wearing a lions mane
In dress from the eighties
She cut you like stained glass
Til you fell out of the frame
It was a secret disaster
I was sitting on your knee
I was just a kid then
But I wanted more daddy

It's a long way back
If you don't believe
Where you go
I see it coming

I will find you
When the shadows speak
When you come around
There'll be no chains around me

You always had a new car
Driving from the window
Big house with the front yard
You were god from the get go

Mama always loved you
And she carried it on her back
Everybody shouting
Trying to claim but they lost track

It's a long way back
If you don't believe
Where you go
I see it coming

I will find you
When the shadows speak
When you come around
There'll be no chains around me

Doubled up in beds
After you up and left
That's what you did
That's what you did

I waited up in my bed
After you left
That's what I did
That's what I did

Now that I'm older
And I know what I know
I'm gonna tuck my kids in at night
Gonna be there for the morning glow

Maybe you were never there
When I needed you most
But I'm the woman that you made and I gotta be fair
So I gotta say thank you

It's a long way back
If you don't believe
Where you go
I see it coming

I will find you
When the shadows speak
When you come around
There'll be no chains around me