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Mother / Daughter

from Good Day Better by Benyaro

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MOTHER / DAUGHTER

words and music by Ben Musser
written in Montauk and Brooklyn, NY

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So what if I were to compete with you
Or did exactly things the way you wished me to
would you shut up?
These wasted (urgent) years have come to realize
To rise above this standard mess
time takes no sides
Maybe your past is what gets to (you blue)
The weight of squandered chance those bags are all you
So please leave me out…

so we’re not down on that road all the time
sometimes a mother and daughter go blind

(mom) Close your legs and stand up straight my girl
Cause that’s not how the women misbehave where you come from
It doesn’t matter how you steer, where you look or go
‘cause experience is mine and always your foe
Until the day I’m dead then pass that privilege on
Hold it over (nice and) high (just) like my mom (mother)
And one other thing that you should be aware of
Is until then I refuse to undress these gloves.

So we’ll go down on that road all the time
And sometimes a mother and daughter go blind


(daughter) the truth is a smile is what I bring for you
But heaven forbid a bridge be built to where you run some kingdom
And for you to show one god damned ounce of proud declaration of who I am
is enough acceptance to last this child their (a) lifetime
And why voice is about to break is surely sign enough for me to show
Just how much I love you… and I hate you…

So we’re down on that road all the time
Sometimes a mother and daughter go blind
Unlikely strangers, sad eyes begging kindly “take me for what I’m forever…
Take me for while I’m alive”

Though it’s in vain to share in this friction
It’s there just the same
Brings old age
Frustrates and dries up our roots
So you, and me, let’s get (enter females) down off that road this time…………

And promise me we won’t go blind.
Let’s get down off that road….. this time
…..this time
(We promise that we won’t go blind) – (lead cuts out)
(hi back up line?)
(Down off that road this time)
(we promise that we won’t go blind)





So to deaf ears I call to you and with squinted eyes you stare at me
Just believe that I’m really there
(kate?) An excuse will keep the relationship tense
Like you’ve settled on building a goddamned fence and that’s final
And you can’t come in because I blame you for everything.

Let’s grow up and purge all this pain
(we can get over this)
Let’s grow up time’s slowly walking away
Let’s grow up you mean more than I can say
Let’s grow up and put our ego’s away
Let’s grow up together and share
Let’s grow up and shut up today
(See my knuckles they’re white)
(And though I know the same from my mother
I have to make this situation)

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from Good Day Better, released March 24, 2010

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From the dank depths of the Brooklyn subways to the spiritually orgasmic heights of Jackson Hole WY, Ben Musser's indie roots project BENYARO carves a unique path w 1 rule: make great art. Honest, vulnerable shit. Neil Jenny once told Ben "In order to create something truly unique 1 must shut out the influence of others". If anything, here's a killer contemporary artists' advice applied to music. ... more

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