Written by Kevin Bacon  
  
"Kind of exploring the role that fear plays in my life.  Thanks to Trav for the cool lick." KB  
  
She'll wake you in the morning  
As she fills your head at night  
She'll drop by, without warning  
Just when you thought you were doing all right  
  
You think she's far away in California  
But she has never been so near  
  
Mother fear  
  
She was there the day you turned your cheek  
She led you from the fight  
She was in your throat, when you couldn't speak  
She sings harmony tonight   
She knew just were you lived  
She brought the sedatives  
She brought the whiskey and the beer  
  
Mother fear, Mother fear, Mother fear  
  
That peaceful feeling's so deceiving  
You check the kids to see they're breathing  
  
And as you watch your house come tumbling down  
She stands beside you in the rubble  
She'll be the first to recognize the sound  
Of the bursting of the bubble  
  
And as you prance and pose  
In your new emperor's clothes  
She'll get the crowd to laugh and cheer  
And here she comes  
  
Mother fear, Mother fear  
Year after year after year