Mother Of God

All you kids get out the back door
 I've never seen her this bad before
 She took all her favorite things down from the window
 And broke 'em all over her clean floor
 It's Saturday at the mansion
 The oldest boy walks with a slouch
 The young ones are wild in back of the house
 And she gave up and went back to sleep on the couch
 Something as simple as boys and girls
 Gets tossed all around and then lost in the world
 Something as hard as a prayer on your back
 Can wait a long time for an answer
 When I was little I'd stare at her picture
 And talk to the mother of God
 I swear sometimes I'd see her lips move
 Like she was trying to say something to me
 When I was eighteen I moved to Florida
 Like everyone sick of the cold does
 And I waited on old people waiting to die
 I waited on them until I was
 Something as simple as boys and girls
 Gets tossed all around and then lost in the world
 Something as hard as a prayer on your back
 Can wait a long time for an answer
 So I'm wearing my footsteps into this floor
 One day I won't live here anymore
 Someone will wonder who lived here before
 And went on their way
 I live too many miles from the ocean
 And I'm getting older and odd
 I get up every morning with a black cup of coffee
 And I talk to the mother of God
 Something as simple as boys and girls
 Gets tossed all around and then lost in the world
 Something as hard as a prayer on your back
 Can wait a long time for an answer
 Can wait a long time for an answer
 Maybe it's alright
 Maybe we won't fight anymore
 Maybe love is waiting at the end of every room
 I don't know
 I don't know
 But maybe, maybe it's alright