The Ways and Wounds (Of My World)

I feel a shadow coming up behind me
 It's icy hand soon resting on my shoulder
 Mother do you know what it's like
 To be every bit the stranger in all that you know
 Hey mother where's your little daughter
 What do your arms surround
 Can you remember the eyes that saw you for the first time
 And never after
 Well they're here and looking fast behind me
 From side to side in every waking moment
 From oceans near and oceans far
 To the very biggest cities and towns so small
 These are the ways and the wounds of my world
 These are the ways and the wounds of my world
 These are the ways and the wounds
 Of my world
 Every day I walk another mile and
 Every night I dream another dream where
 I curse everything I've ever loved
 I've destroyed every home that took me in
 I think of all the things that I would tell you
 I picture how so tight I would hold you
 And how I would forgive all I missed
 And cherish every little second that we would spend
 Still I wait but how much longer
 Oh mother please put to sleep your little daughter
 I can't stand I have no strength
 My blood boils fast from this fire within
 These are the ways and the wounds of my world
 These are the ways and the wounds of my world
 These are the ways and the wounds
 Of my world
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 I feel a shadow coming up behind me
 It's icy hand soon resting on my shoulder
 Mother do you know what it's like
 To be every bit the stranger in all that you know
 Hey mother where's your little daughter
 What do your arms surround
 Can you remember the eyes that saw you for the first time
 And never after
 Still I wait but how much longer
 Oh mother please put to sleep your little daughter
 I can't stand I have no strength
 My blood boils fast from this fire within
 These are the ways and the wounds of my world
 These are the ways and the wounds of my world
 These are the ways and the wounds of my world
 These are the ways and the wounds
 Of my world
 Mother please put to sleep your little daughter
 Mother please put to sleep your little daughter
 Mother please put to sleep your little daughter
 Mother please put to sleep your little daughter
 Mother please put to sleep your little daughter
 Mother please put to sleep your little daughter