His Mother

-written by Jeremy Gloff 

-appears on Still Feel It (1994)




THE STORY:
Much of “Still Feel It” was about my straight best friend Ryan.  One night we stayed at a friend’s house…I told him tearfully in the middle of the night I was in love with him.  And so began our decline.  Ryan was cool about everything.  It was I who couldn’t handle it…

THE LYRICS:

She signed a paper
And became his mother
And for lack of a better word
He calls her by that name

I think of him as my child
And it seems like he wants me to go away
I don’t know if it’s adolescent rebellion
Because now sometimes sometimes
It seems like he wanted me to stay

When I met him he was suicidal
And now he acts like his problems have all gone away
But he’s built so many walls
The breathing wall of Jericho
And I guess I’ll never know who he really is

She signed a paper
But she is not his mother
And now we live in two separate worlds
We’re a world apart
And I am the one to blame
And I wonder if he
Even remembers my name…

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