I was born with my hand in a fist   And my eyes shut tight   Any wonder that I cannot resist   Punchin' blindly, in a fight   First time I saw swans flyin' to the sun   I wanted to be one      Every mother's son   When I saw my life had begun   I wanted to be someone      Like my brother, my one and only father   And like every mother's son      I was raised within' a cause   With a purpose to fulfill   I was taught to defend what was mine   And instructed, not to kill   (My small mortal eyes can see eternity)   My small mortal eyes can see eternity   In the clouds that dissolve and then regroup endlessly      Like every mother's son   When a man showed me how to use a gun   I wished I'd never needed one      Like my brother, my one and only father   And like every mother's son      Everything in domesticity   Assumes it's role other than me   Displaced persons whose culture let me down   I raised my own daughters in a pornographic town   (I raised my own daughters in a pornographic town)      Like every mother's son   I've lost some and some I've won   (Now I'm waiting for a new dawn)   Now I'm waiting for a new dawn      Like my brother, my one and only father   And like every mother's son