Mama Lay Softly On The Riverbed

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MORRISSEY song
Name Mama Lay Softly On The Riverbed
Album/single Years Of Refusal
Length 3:53
Writer/composer Morrissey / Alain Whyte
Producer Jerry Finn
Release February 2009
Recorded Autumn-Winter 2007

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Lyrics

Mama, why did you do it?
Mama, who drove you to it?

Was it the pigs in grey suits persecuting you?
Uncivil servants unconcerned at how they frighten you?
Life is nothing much to lose
It's just so lonely here without you

Mama, why did you do it?
Mama, who drove you to it?

Spare priggish money-men who scared the life out of you
Bailiffs with bad-breath - I will slit their throats for you
Life is nothing much to lose
It's just so lonely here without you, Mama

Life is nothing much to lose
It's just so lonely here without you

So, we're gonna run to you
We're gonna come to you
We're gonna lie down beside you, Mama

We're gonna be with you
We're gonna join you
We're gonna lie down beside you, Mama

And we will be safe and sheltered in our graves
We'll come before you and we will kiss you
By way of one final hug, Mama

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