Mother Father (Live at the Tweeter Center at the Waterfront, Camden, NJ, 06.23.01) - Dave Matthews Band.mp3

[00:23.95]Mother, Father, please explain to me
[00:27.75]Why a world so full of mystery
[00:32.40]A place so bitter and still so sweet
[00:37.05]So beautiful and yet so full of sad, sad
[00:40.95]Mother, Father, please explain to me
[00:45.35]Why forests march to desert speed
[00:49.75]While snowcapped mountains melt away
[00:54.05]What do we tell our babies, when do we say, oh
[00:58.25]Mother, Father, please explain to me
[01:02.55]How a man who rocks his child to sleep
[01:07.05]Pulls the trigger on his brother's heart
[01:11.85]He digs a hole right to the middle of this storm of hatred
[01:16.85]Mother, Father, please explain to me
[01:21.05]How it could be so this world has come to be
[01:25.65]A precious balance in between
[01:30.35]Such cruelty and such kindness [Incomprehensible] please
[01:34.95]Mother, Father, please explain to me
[01:39.15]How this world has come to be
[01:43.75]Unequaled in her blessings, oh, I see
[01:48.35]Unbridled hatred so extreme, please tell me
[01:52.95]Mother, Father, please explain to me
[01:57.25]How this world has come to be so
[02:01.85]Twisted between time and dreams
[02:06.15]Oh, Mother, Father, please explain to me
[02:10.55]Oh, what's all this talk about?
[02:14.35]All this talk about it
[02:18.25]Spinning down, down, down, down, down
[02:22.95]All this talk about
[02:26.75]Oh, endless words without
[02:30.55]Nothing's done
[02:32.65]Mother, Father, do you know
[02:37.05]Why one man's belly overflows?
[02:41.55]Another sleeps in hunger's bed
[02:45.95]Oh, we trade our world for a piece of bread
[02:49.95]Oh, Mother, Father, please explain to me
[02:54.35]How this rare world's come to be
[02:58.85]A place so full of color yet overflowing always in black and white
[03:05.15]Drowning in the waters of our
[03:07.45]Mother, Father, please explain to me
[03:11.75]How this world has come to be
[03:16.25]While still blessed in all the things we see
[03:20.75]Such a sad, sad home for you and me
[03:25.05]Come [Incomprehensible], come on out you
[03:29.45]Come on out you, come and save yourself
[03:33.95]Come on out you, come on, we're taking the water
[03:38.25]We're taking the water, we're taking the water
[03:41.95]But you know
[03:43.55]We got the freedom, we got the freedom
[03:48.15]There's no God above
[03:50.05]And no Hell below
[03:52.65]Oh, it's here with us
[03:55.35]It's up to us to keep afloat
[03:58.55]How this sweet world has come to be
[04:02.55]Oh, to keep afloat
[04:04.95]Mother, Father, please explain to me
[04:09.15]How this rare world has come to be
[04:13.75]Oh, let the blue planet
[04:17.45]Let the blue planet
[04:20.65]Mother, Father, please explain to me
[04:25.35]Mother, Father, please explain