| She’ll wake you in the morning
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| As she fills your head at night
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| She’ll drop by, without warning
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| Just when you thought you were doing all right
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| You think she’s far away in California
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| But she has never been so near
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| Mother fear
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| She was there the day you turned your cheek
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| She led you from the fight
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| She was in your throat, when you couldn’t speak
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| She sings harmony tonight
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| She knew just were you lived
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| She brought the sedatives
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| She brought the whiskey and the beer
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| Mother fear, Mother fear, Mother fear
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| That peaceful feeling’s so deceiving
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| You check the kids to see they’re breathing
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| And as you watch your house come tumbling down
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| She stands beside you in the rubble
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| She’ll be the first to recognize the sound
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| Of the bursting of the bubble
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| And as you prance and pose
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| In your new emperor’s clothes
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| She’ll get the crowd to laugh and cheer
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| And here she comes
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| Mother fear, Mother fear
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| Year after year after year |