Mother Mother – O My Heart

So we had one of the most insane  thunderstorms I’ve ever witnessed in Calgary last night.  So insane in fact, that when it woke me up I was certain we were under some kind of attack.  After regaining my composure, and putting down my golf club, I found myself on the couch listening to some tunes.  O My Heart is the title-track from Mother Mother‘s sophomore album, released in September of 2008.  More recently, the band has been nominated for the 2nd annual Verge Music Award in both “Artist of the Year” and “Album of the Year” categories; If you want to help decide the winners, voting is open to the public until August 31st here.

Oh my heart, it’s a fish out of water
Oh my heart, it’s a fish on the rocks
and it bakes in the bad sun

Oh my heart, it’s a rock in the gutter
Oh my heart, it’s a rock and great boulder and stuck in the gutter

And I throw my heart back to the ocean
But it don’t go far, it come back floating
And I watch it wash it up with the dead fish

But it ain’t quite dead, it just is like this

Oh my heart, it’s a house in tornado,
Oh my heart, it’s a house in the sky in the eye of tornado
Oh my heart, it’s a roof in El nino
Oh my heart, it’s a roof made of straw in the jaw of El nino

And I pour my heart a new foundation
But it don’t set far, it just stays shaking
And I scratch my name, I scratch my name in
But it don’t set heart, it gets mixed back in

Bam bam bam, bam bam bam, bam bam bam, bam…

Oh my heart, it’s a fish out of water
Oh my heart, it’s a rock in the gutter

Oh my heart, it’s the black in a rainbow
Oh my heart, it’s so damn so cold, so damn cold

And I throw my heart into the fire
‘Cos I want to set my heart on fire
And I watch it try befriending embers
But the ice don’t melt in mid-December

Oh my heart, it’s a fish out of water
Oh my heart, it’s a fish on the rocks
and it bakes in the bad sun