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