Tonedeff - Five Sisters lyrics

I got five sisters, tied to one mother
Five different sides to uncover
Pick a part of her personality, each
And develop whoever you want to be
I got five sisters, all in one line
Five gifts in all to combine
Trace it to the root of our family tree
And here’s how each one is unique, listen

Sister #1 had it rough
And she took the brunt of the punishment
'cause she was the first of the bunch
To an underage mother, who was tough
No wonder she’d rush to get
Married, at barely 16, and very young
She’d become the disciplinarian, but
The symptoms of the repression she suffered
Would bubble over in lust
After a couple of marriages go bust
She struggles with different daughters
Who mimicked her, just as mother had done


Sister number #2’s sad news
The first out of four from
My mother’s schizophrenic husband #2
The rumored most beautiful one of the group
In her unending quest for attention
She had a penchant for bad dudes
Who ruined her her magic
With baggies and booze
And would lose the pure magnetism
And attraction that her mother exudes
She mentally never grew out of her youth
As the master manipulator, of the ladies
She knew -

And you can be whoever you want
So you can get whatever you need
And you can be whoever you want
So you can get whatever you need

Sister #3 is Geneva in times of war
She’s the center where the rest
Of them meet up
#2 would beat up her self esteem
With a stream of grief saying that she was
An overweight underachiever
And #3’d believe her -
See - as a teen she married
A dealer who’d mistreat her who later OD’d
To leave her with babies to feed
In need of a man she
Can keep, the pattern repeats
There’s talent beneath
Her broken mentality keeps her from all
Things that she dreams of

Sister #4 is our noah
The spiritual core - the
Enormous weight of it
All - is too much to hold up
The only one with no sons or
Daughters and so she’s focused
The last to get married, first to graduate
Perfect persona
So, opinions matter more - they control her
- and that alone is her torture
So, fashion forward
It masking her frazzled aura for show
But the fact she’s mostly at home alone
And won’t pick the phone
Says the difficult role has been
Choking her growing older

Sister #5 is the fighter
Though the other 4 would pull out a knife
To defend the others with no wind-up
If you saying something sly just to slight us
#5 will prolly blind you while driving
She’s got the eye of the tiger
This lioness’ll ride or die for her pride
And she thriving on trying times
She’ll always find a way to survive in a bind
She made it a decade, with
Her guy doing time, and she’s by your side
But god forbid, you cross her line
With a forgiveness too high to climb

Now, it’s important to observe -
That the force of nature that birthed us
Made "mother" more than a word
There’s so many states of this person
Though some distortions occurred
That each of us absorbed a portion, in turn
We form into her
To secure our places and worth
This cunning runs in our genes
So we can change into different faces
When it comes to our needs
I've got 5 sisters, but 6 mothers indeed
Cause each one of them was a mother to me

And you can be whoever you want
So what you get whatever you need
And you can be whoever you want
So what you get whatever you need
These pieces of me are yours, so own them