Hurdles Even Here

[Verse 1] 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 [Verse 2] So it all ran down the telephone And saw me clearly Only nine years old Calmly cast in styrofoam In my Tony Lamas When the shock takes hold [Chorus] 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 [Verse 2] 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 [Chorus] 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