pretenders
every mother's son
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