WE'RE ALL SURVIVORS

Mother, my lost mother
I've got something to say
You left this place without me
On a cold November day
I popped out from your beneath
With a smile on my face
All I beheld was your frown
And your gaze that did fade
You dropped me like a clown
And on me, ice block you placed
My blood didn't flow down
I was stiff and so dazed.
I'm a miracle child, crowned
So I was seen and saved.

We're all survivors
All of us are saying
We're all survivors
We lived for better days!
We're all survivors
Survivors we remain.

Mother, my hateful mother
I asked you once before
"you'll live this world without me?"
That's the answer I'm looking for
I told you this on that day
But your mind was all made up
So you couldn't hear me say,
"mom, please allow me growup"
Until you zealously laid
And I felt those forceps
And the prongs that invade
Tearing off my biceps
I'm a miracle child, doctor says
Although today, I'm lame...

We're all survivors
All of us are saying
We're all survivors
We lived for better days!
We're all survivors
Survivors we remain.

Mother, my dauntless mother
Have you any feelings at all?
I lived in you for nine months
Until the night I saw the world
You held me in your arms
I thought it was motherly love
Until you stepped into the farms
And handed me to him in gloves
You received money stacks
And went away, not looking back
He placed me in the mortar
But before he began to pound
I'm a miracle child, so we heard,
We heard the siren sounds

We're all survivors
All of us are saying
We're all survivors
We lived for better days!
We're all survivors
Survivors we remain.

Mother, my heartless mother
I'm sure you can't forget
The day that father proposed
He was rich, you didn't reject
But when things came wrecking
After a wedding day's select
I was already in you growing
But you were filled with regrets
You decided to cast me out
For fear of being abject
I'm not a living earthling
But for you I won't be dead
Gently waiting for a day
That you, I'll gladly interrogate

We're all survivors
All of us are saying
We're all survivors
We lived for better days!
We're all survivors
Survivors we remain...

Summers have heated the sorrows
Winters have frozen the pains
Autumns carve our roads narrow
And are widened by the rains
But in the court of Heavens
When we and you will be sane
We'll lay our cases to God
He'll judge us all the same.

©André ™