Mother, leave my father
And get me out of this hell
Mother, pull the car up
We can make a new life for ourselves

Mother, leave my father
Before he gets back in
Mother, I know it's hard
But we gotta get away from him

Do it for the children
Do it for me

Mother, leave my father
And save me from this life
Mother, get an apartment
And learn to love someone kind
Mother, hear my heart
It's thumping like the skin of a drum
Mother, I love who you are
But you gotta be the bigger one

Do it for the children
Do it for the children

And we'll start over again
In a house from the magazine
Safe inside a picket fence
With a great big trampoline
And we'll have so many friends
They'll live right on down the street
And we'll never be scared again
We will be a family

Mother
Leave my father

I go up
You go down (da-da-da-da-da)
Way up in the clouds
I go up
You go down (da-da-da-da-da)
Never coming down

Mother
Leave my father
(Leave my father now)
Do it for the children
Do it for the children

And we'll start over again
In a house from the magazine
Safe inside a picket fence
With a great big trampoline
And we'll have so many friends
They'll live right on down the street
And we'll never be scared again
We will be a family, family
And we'll start over again
In a house from the magazine
Safe inside a picket fence
With a great big trampoline
And we'll have so many friends
They'll live right on down the street
And we'll never be scared again
We will be a family, family