Relief Lyrics - Singles - Hunters And Collectors

You can't make mother cry 

You can't make her twist her ragged hair 

You can't make mother groan 

Even when her soldier sonny 

shakes his iron cocktail in the air... 

You can't make mother cry 

You can't make her give consent 

Though she flounders at the drainboard 

Though her back be down there and bent 

If sleeping brings relief 

She can go lie down and slumber 

If sleeping brings relief 

She can go lie down and slumber 

If sleeping brings relief 

She can go... lie down and slumber... 

Slumber 

She puts her hands down into the sink 

Scrapes the grunge up off the bottom 

Down there beneath the dishes 

Where the knives lie crossed and waiting 

She can't stop the kiddies talking 

Their tongues be loosed upon the world 

They flap until they lather 

For the agony of millions 

And if sleeping brings relief 

They can go lie down and slumber 

And if sleeping brings relief 

They can go lie down and slumber 

And if sleeping brings relief 

They can... go lie down and slumber 

Slumber... 

And there be no release from anguish 

For this slapstick generation 

And there be no peace for all the kiddies 

'Cause they're too satisfied to care 

And the field of gorgeous bodies 

Primed and ready in the sun 

And the white flag of peace 

That is hanging 

Limp and useless in the air... 

And the white flag of peace 

That is hanging 

Limp and useless in the air, yeah! 

And if sleeping brings relief 

You can all go lie down and slumber 

And if sleeping brings relief 

You can go lie down and slumber... 

Slumber...