living with mum
means your comfort will come first
the bed is ready-made
breakfast’s on the table

all of your wims
are catered to
atrophy wins
you never need to walk
anywhere ever again

living with mum
means you have to try new things
to not grow stagnant
or co-dependent
fend off the loneliness it brings

and wake up to
lukewarm coffee
new cures in the bathroom
you never ordered
it's overwhelming

living with mum
seems to make you argue more
you worry she's unhappy
and you wonder what else fate has in store

all of your sins
are catalogued
in her memory
yet she is ceaselessly supportive
and she harbours me

living with mum
means you get things out the blue
but you’re ungrateful
not how she raised you
you can't accept a hot potato

you wake up to
three missed calls
and all the posters fall on you
you’re getting older
it's overwhelming

living with mum
means the end of privacy
cus these walls are paper-thin
and you're sure that they are pushing in

all of your friends
managed to move away from home
but you are such a failure
so you're back here
all alone

and living with mum
means mike board had the last laugh
and you’re sure she reads your mail
well "a problem shared is a problem halved"

so wake up to
suffer through
another lonely month or two
then try to leave here
it's overwhelming

she’ll wake up to
empty rooms
a son that dimly fades from view
you can’t repay her
it's overwhelming
overwhelming