Mother, at my first breath    Every paragraph was set    As I inhaled the scent of debt    Mother, that first stolen air    On papers saying I'm not mine       "We crown you, the King of Loss...    Better get on your feet    Best be one of us    Better get yourself on the list    For success    Dress up as a State investment    Charm the press    A breed from the seed of only    One short breath"       Mother, hence we cry:    Some of us are free to stand    Most of us are bound to lie    In those bloodstained beds    No one can afford to pay    The prices on their babies' heads       I am the King of Loss!    For every dear smile I feel I'm not one of us    "An ivory coin for every plus on your stone"       "One more governmental blade    Now drawn from its sheath    Quite a bargain I'd say since either way    You will live by the show of our teeth!"       Mother, I wish that we could talk    You see    I'm not fit to play this game    Bound by its rules just the same    My talents turned to talons    Every monetary pile    Will buy me a precious smile...   smile...       So smile for the King of Loss    Feed from the juices    Bleeding from this cross    Then tell me our lives mean more    Than this vain thirst!       "A governmental blade    Drawn from its private sheath    Quite a bargain I'd say, since either way    You'll be living by the show of our..."       I hold up my head    This was my life    Now I'm with the dead    So I lay my bare neck    This is your call    Dub a king or a wreck       (Mother, listen to me mother)       This was my life    This is your call       Is this all I am? Is this all I'll be?    This is not enough!       We're all crying for respect and attention    We're all dying for a painless redemption!    This is not what I wanted    But for every drop of blood I lost myself    I, too, lay bleeding on the sidewalk...       Mother    Long live the dying king       "A governmental blade    Now drawn from its private sheath    Quite a bargain I'd say, since either way    I will live by the show of your teeth..."