Mothers Sisters Daughters & Wives
Voxtrot Lyrics

If you think you're throwing words to the wise,
If you believe that you are imparting wisdom with your words,

the first thing that you ever felt, inside and under your belt
The first feeling that you've ever experienced within yourself, deep down,

To a place that smothers children
Is a place that suffocates and harms the innocent and young

Caught the space between two lives
That space that exists between two stages of life

I've seen you working, wasted and gray
I have observed you laboring, looking drained and colorless

You've got a delicate heart, and listen, you would be smart
You possess a heart that is delicate, and, if you listen, it would be wise

To keep yourself in a world of mothers, sisters, daughters and wives
To keep yourself surrounded by the unbreakable bond of women - mothers, sisters, daughters, and wives

Listen, I've come to rock this boat
Pay attention, for I have arrived to shake things up

The take and giving means no room for the living
The constant exchange of goods and services leaves no space for individuals to truly live and experience life

And some of you think it loves and lovers
Some of you believe that it is love and romance

Death in one corner, use suspense in the other
Death is lurking in one corner, and suspense is being utilized in the other

I know that when it's over we'll be holding one another
I am aware that when everything is said and done, we will be embracing each other

We only ever wanted to feel you
We simply desired to feel the presence of others

Two years of taction only teaches you to fight
Two years of action/experience only teaches you to be combative

We only ever wanted to try
All we ever aspired to do was to attempt our best

And if you see this world as ugly and thin
And if you view this world as unpleasant and insubstantial

Then you'll be so cruel to the touch, you'll leap out the body you're in
Then, you'll be so harsh to the sense of touch - that you'll want to escape from your own body

To a land of angry soil, that swallows boys and cops or men
To a land where the ground itself is full of fury and violence - capable of devouring any boy, policeman, or man

I've seen you taste the salt of your tears
I've observed you experience the bitterness of your own tears

You always stop when you start, and listen, you would be smart
You constantly pause when you initiate something. I must advise you that it would be wise

To keep yourself in a world of mothers, sisters, daughters and wives
To stay surrounded by a community of women - mothers, sisters, daughters, and wives

I'll raise a glass to the and no one else's fool
I'll raise a glass in salute to you, the only fool worth toasting to

Raise some question to the rule who says you'd have to lose a love to find one
Challenge the principle that indicates that you have to sacrifice a love in order to come across a new one

Take the things you don't respect and I will miss them
Take the things that you dislike or don't admire, and I'll long for them

To features night into one
To merge two contradictory elements into one cohesive whole

That says you have to lose a love to find one
Which claims that you must relinquish a love in order to acquire another

I'm around, I'm around, I'm ok, I'm ok
I'm here, I'm here, I'm alright, I'm alright

I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm insane, I'm insane
I'm living, I'm living, I'm crazy, I'm crazy

We are, yeah, we are, we are
We are, yes, we are, we are

We are just sinking for something
We're simply aiming for something, even if it means that we're losing ourselves in the process

With our hands, and our fists, muscles, skin, thumb, and bone
With every part of our physical selves - our hands, fists, muscles, skin, thumb, and bone

We never grew up, we were cut from the stone
We never matured, we were hewn from the very rock

That holds your body and soul
That encapsulates and contains both your physical being and essence

We are all just sinking for something
All of us are simply in the process of submerging, attempting to attain something