My Bad Days

[Verse 1] Dear Mother, we all got bad days And I know you will understand Where we open up a foreign door With a pair of foreign hands Where we find ourselves alone at the foot Of a pair of foreign stairs Dear Mother, you know how our bad days Can catch you unaware And catch us unaware [Verse 2] Dear Mother, we all got bad days And I know that you will agree With a bottle that's filled up with Vicodin And a child who looks just like me And a cellar that's as dark as winter is cold With a hole in stone, cold wall And a child like me who's hiding A child who can't hear your call [Pre-Chorus] There's a string that runs through our bad days If you pull that string real tight The days all crumple together And all that you see is night [Chorus] And the doorknob becomes your enemy And the window, you see through a haze Dear Mother, I wish you could stand inside And see all my bad days [Verse 3] Well, my bad days all got together And they stood in a row for me And I plunged deep into the row And I couldn't hear and I couldn't see And I came out after thousands came And thousands passed away Now I stand all alone at the foot of the stairs And I wait for more bad days [pre-Chorus] There's a string that runs through our bad days And if you pull that string real tight The days all crumple together And all that you see is night [Chorus] And the doorknob becomes your enemy And the window, you see through a haze Dear Mother, I wish you could stand inside And see all my bad days My bad days