DAMNED IF I DO
By Tor Hyams & Lisa Rothauser

I’m ready to see my mother again it’ll be okay
Not even she could bring me down no not today
I’ll put on a smile
I’ll hold up my chin
Another chance to begin

My room hasn’t changed, not one bit, in twenty years
Down to the lacquer furniture we bought from Sears
She doesn’t try
She doesn’t bend
And nothing seems to work out in the end

‘Cause I’m damned if I do
And I’m damned if I don’t
When I say I would
She says she won’t
So I go and I go and I go and I go until she says stop
Always waiting for the other shoe to drop

The ups and downs, the highs and lows were all I knew
And every conversation left me black and blue
There’s no way in
There’s no way out
But there’s one thing I know without a doubt

That I’m damned if I do
And I’m damned if I don’t
When I say I would
She says she won’t
So I go and I go and I go and I go until she says stop
Always waiting for
Always waiting for the other shoe to drop