The Decemberists - Hurdles Even Here lyrics

So it started in your ovaries
A stone, a seedling our bones entwined
A warning from the orderlies
A bulge for bleeding
This will take it's time

So it all ran down the telephone
And saw me clearly only nine years old
Calmly cast in Styrofoam in my Tony Lomas
When the shock takes hold

Mom, there are hurdles here
That I cannot seem to clear
Dad, there are demons ’round
I know I said that I
Said I’d be all right, I lied i lied
I lied i lied

So fix your brood and belly now
Til your sinews sweeten
And your veins retire
It’ll eat you from the inside out
Until it comes out screaming
Until it all falls away

Dad, there are hurdles here
That I cannot seem to clear
Mom, there are demons ’round
And though I said that I
Said I’d be all right, I lied i lied
I lied i lied