Released: September 16, 1985
Songwriter: Kate Bush
Producer: Kate Bush
[Verse 1]
She knows that I've been doing something wrong
But she won't say anything
She thinks that I was with my friends yesterday
But she won't mind me lying
Mmm, because
[Chorus 1]
Mother stands for comfort
Mother will hide the murderer
[Verse 2]
It breaks the cage and fear escapes and takes possession
Just like a crowd rioting inside
Make me do this, make me do that
Make me do this, make me do that
Am I the cat that takes the bird?
To her the hunted, not the hunter
[Chorus 2]
Mother stands for comfort
Mother will hide the murderer
Mother hides the madman
Mother will stay mum
[Chorus 3]
Mother stands for comfort
Mother will stay mum
She stands for comfort
She knows that I've been doing something wrong
But she won't say anything
She thinks that I was with my friends yesterday
But she won't mind me lying
Mmm, because
[Chorus 1]
Mother stands for comfort
Mother will hide the murderer
[Verse 2]
It breaks the cage and fear escapes and takes possession
Just like a crowd rioting inside
Make me do this, make me do that
Make me do this, make me do that
Am I the cat that takes the bird?
To her the hunted, not the hunter
[Chorus 2]
Mother stands for comfort
Mother will hide the murderer
Mother hides the madman
Mother will stay mum
[Chorus 3]
Mother stands for comfort
Mother will stay mum
She stands for comfort
more tracks from the album
From the albums
- Hounds of Love (1985)
- Hounds of Love (1997 remaster) (1997)
Kate Bush popular songs
- Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)
- Wuthering Heights
- Babooshka
- This Woman’s Work
- Cloudbusting
- Hounds of Love
- Waking the Witch
- Suspended in Gaffa
- And Dream of Sheep
- Army Dreamers
- Hello Earth
- Jig of Life
- The Sensual World
- Watching You Without Me
- Sat in Your Lap
- Get Out of My House
- The Big Sky
- The Dreaming
- The Man with the Child in His Eyes
- The Morning Fog
- Mother Stands for Comfort
- Breathing
- Pull Out the Pin
- Under Ice