My Mom Tabulatur von Kimya Dawson

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have you ever had a dream

that your favorite baby's drowning?
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and you grab him by his sweater sleeve and pull him up on to the ground and
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you can hear the water slosh around inside his tiny gut
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push his belly up and down but he can't cough the water up
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suddenly a flood comes out his mouth till there is nothing left inside of him,

he's empty now

there isn't even one small breath

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and he goes limp in your arms
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all the people's mouths are moving 
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all you hear are car alarms
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and you wake up and start to cry
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I will lose my shit if even one more person I know dies,
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so please don't die.

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My mom's sick she's in a hospital bed
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I've got a word for all you ghosts in her head
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and all you skeletons in her closet
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leave her alone
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leave her alone
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leave her alone, please

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because my mom needs you gone
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my mom needs you gone
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as long as she is haunted she'll never get strong
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my mom needs you gone

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you traded all your paper clips for a soap dish that way
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your best friend's rubber ducky wouldn't slip and slide away
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but he traded his rubber duck for a cigar box to place your paper clips in
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Mr. Hooper came to say,
  
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"Oh, my dear friends, Bert and Ernie,
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here's a little something for each of you from me
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here are your paper clips and here's your rubber ducky
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how could I ignore such selfless generosity?"

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the human body's made up of good and bad bacteria
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but the antibiotics and the antibacterials are killing all the good ones
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and the bad ones just get stronger and become super infections
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it's harder to destroy them and it's harder to detect them
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and there's something in her blood
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and there's something in her leg
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and there's something in her brain

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my mom's sick she's in a hospital bed
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I've got a word for all you ghosts in her head
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and all you skeletons in her closet
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leave her alone,
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leave her alone,
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leave her alone,
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leave her alone,
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leave her alone,
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leave her alone, 
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leave her alone, please
        F       G         C
because my mom needs you gone
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my mom needs you gone
     F              G        C
as long as she is haunted, she'll never get strong,
F        G        C
my mom needs you gone
F        G        C
my mom needs you gone
F        G        C  [let ring]
my mom needs you gone.