Eloise Lyrics - Raven - Paula Cole

Who is this hurting mother? 

I don't want to be her now 

Who in the hell's that sad reflection? 

How did I lose myself? 

How many time I walk the river, wondering what life's for 

Sobbing beneath a staid performance 

Too scared to let it out 

Duty calls... duty calls... 

Who is that hurting daughter, 

going down the rabbit hole? 

Falling into a crushing darkness. 

Shedding the skins of the soul 

How many times I walk the river 

wanting to lose myself 

Weight of an overcoat of sorrow 

Too sensitive for this world 

Duty calls... duty calls... 

Time to do the drop off 

Time to make the meals 

Time to greet the neighbors 

Be a perfect ten 

Smiling exterior, but nervous and distressed 

Plodding on this treadmill, take another pill 

Start another morning, wake to the alarm 

Rise up in the darkness, get inside the car 

Join the rank and file, thousands in the flow 

Minnows on the freeway, on and on it goes 

I don't want to go, I don't want to live this 

I don't want this life, there is more than this 

Who is that serious child, the one left alone? 

Mother's in the kitchen crying again, no use to ask for help 

So it goes... so it goes...