Menomena - Baton lyrics

Hail Mary
You're conveniently buried this evening
Missed me dodging bullets
On a subject that is not worth repeating

I wish you were my mother and
I wish you couldn't hear
I wish these memory lanes promoted
Growth instead of fear
I wish I wasn't forced to rob
A grave to pull you near

Hail Mary
Here's the new baton to pass in the relay
Between the bathhouse
And the colored mountains lining the freeway
I wish you were my lover with
Your hands in place of ears
I wish that co-dependence could sustain
Us through the years
I wish that wrecking fantasies could
Pass for a career

No one turn the light on
Turn the light on in the morning
Someone turn the light
Turn the light on in the morning
Somebody turn the light on

Hail Mary is this golden ticket all
That you've left me?
For the therapist to pawn off
And retire off the proceeds

I wish you were in person
What you are in souvenirs
I wish I could remember if
My last words were sincere
I wish I could construct a
Better song for you, my dear