She needs To Tell Someone
Guitar and vocal telling a story about the communication between a child and his elderly mother.
Story behind the song
My mother is in a nursing home and I go to visit her for lunch. We have talks about my father who was a batterer. Things I have never heard before.
Lyrics
V1
I visit mom at the nursing home.
I get there when I can.
She wants me there more often.
I say I’m a busy man.
V2
When I’m there it’s lunch on her.
She likes it that way.
She gets insulted if I try to pay
V3
Mom and I have some talks
we have never had before.
There’s no distractions
to block her memory any more.
1st Chorus
The bottled up emotion
of a long life begins to flow.
She needs to tell someone,
let the somebody know.
V4
She talks about the beatings at
the hands of that raging man.
The broken bones and the broken home
The happy family was a sham.
2nd Chorus
The dirty names he called her
the paranoid jealousy. All done to
cover his infidelity.
V5
She told me why she stayed with him
year after year.
Afraid that he would find her.
and make things more severe.
V6
I don’t blame her
for staying with that man;
No help was available
She had to make a stand.
V7
The years went by and he grew old,
she took care of him.
He died with her by his side
forgiven of his sin
