Mother Of God Lyrics - Soundtrack Exclusives & Rarities - Patty Griffin

All you kids get out the back door 

I've never seen her this bad before 

She took all her favorite things down from the window 

And broke 'em all over her clean floor 

It's Saturday at the mansion 

The oldest boy walks with a slouch 

The young ones are wild in back of the house 

And she gave up and went back to sleep on the couch 

Something as simple as boys and girls 

Gets tossed all around and then lost in the world 

Something as hard as a prayer on your back 

Can wait a long time for an answer 

When I was little I'd stare at her picture 

And talk to the mother of God 

I swear sometimes I'd see her lips move 

Like she was trying to say something to me 

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When I was eighteen I moved to Florida 

Like everyone sick of the cold does 

And I waited on old people waiting to die 

I waited on them until I was 

Something as simple as boys and girls 

Gets tossed all around and then lost in the world 

Something as hard as a prayer on your back 

Can wait a long time for an answer 

So I'm wearing my footsteps into this floor 

One day I won't live here anymore 

Someone will wonder who lived here before 

And went on their way 

I live too many miles from the ocean 

And I'm getting older and odd 

I get up every morning with a black cup of coffee 

And I talk to the mother of God 

Something as simple as boys and girls 

Gets tossed all around and then lost in the world 

Something as hard as a prayer on your back 

Can wait a long time for an answer 

Can wait a long time for an answer 

Maybe it's alright 

Maybe we won't fight anymore 

Maybe love is waiting at the end of every room 

I don't know 

I don't know 

But maybe, maybe it's alright