I Can't Live Without My Mother's Love

I can live with the sky falling out from above
 I can live with your scorn, your sourness, your smug
 I can live growing old alone if push comes to shove
 But I can't live without my mother's love
 I can live flying round at an impossible pace
 I can live with the bad etiquette that's falling on this place
 I can live with anything you've got to throw in my face
 But I can't live without my mother's embrace
 My mother is seventy five
 She's the closest friend I have in my life
 Take her from me, I'll break down and bawl
 And wither away like old leaves in the fall
 You can be cruel all you want, talk bad on my brothers
 Shoot me full of holes and I won't by bothered
 Judge me for my ways and my slew of ex-lovers
 But don't ever dare say a bad word about my mother
 When she's gone I'll miss how slowly she walks
 Playing scrabble with the chimes of the grandfather clock
 I'll even miss the times that we fought
 But mostly I'll miss being able to call her and talk.
 I can live without watching the classic old fights
 I can live without a lover beside me at night
 I can live without what you might call a charmed life
 But I can't live without my mother providing her light
 My mother is seventy five
 One day she won't be here to hear me cry
 When the day comes for her to let go
 I'll die off like a lemon tree in the snow
 When the day comes for her to leave
 I won't have the courage to sort through her things
 With my sisters and all our memories
 I cannot bear all the pain it will bring