come to mama

pete townshend

pride is like a bandage

he is wrapped in a warm cocoon

his pride is like heroin

he is back inside the womb

his pride is like an ocean

encircled by a reef

his pride's a hypnotic potion

his memory is a leaf

her pride is like an armour

flaming ring of fire

her pride is like a blindness

an ever tightening wire

her pride is like a razor

a surgeon's purging knife

her pride is like a censor

she's slashed out half her life