I Can't Tear It from Me

My mother is a steeple
And my father is a stalker
They come to me at night
And speak in tongues
They tell me that we have the same fire over our heads
And they try to say that we have the same hands
I try to run but I can’t tear them from me
They own me in the land of dreams
Jesus didn’t save me but my grandmother did
She pulled me from the wreckage and made me eat again
She taught me to be strong and to sing my way through things
Without her I would have never learned to love
I can run from the big sky
But I can’t tear it from me
We breathe each other’s air
And I was born to be the same
I can run from the big sky
But I can’t tear it from me
We breathe each other’s air
And I was born to be the same
I can run from the big sky
But I can’t tear it from me
We breathe each other’s air
And I was born to be the same
Some fill it up with God
But it’s all imagination
So I fill it with the ones I loved and lost