Mother, leave my father And get me out of this hell Mother, pull the car up We can make a new life for ourselves Mother, leave my father Before he gets back in Mother, I know it's hard But we gotta get away from him Do it for the children Do it for me Mother, leave my father And save me from this life Mother, get an apartment And learn to love someone kind Mother, hear my heart It's thumping like the skin of a drum Mother, I love who you are But you gotta be the bigger one Do it for the children Do it for the children And we'll start over again In a house from the magazine Safe inside a picket fence With a great big trampoline And we'll have so many friends They'll live right on down the street And we'll never be scared again We will be a family Mother Leave my father I go up You go down (da-da-da-da-da) Way up in the clouds I go up You go down (da-da-da-da-da) Never coming down Mother Leave my father (Leave my father now) Do it for the children Do it for the children And we'll start over again In a house from the magazine Safe inside a picket fence With a great big trampoline And we'll have so many friends They'll live right on down the street And we'll never be scared again We will be a family, family And we'll start over again In a house from the magazine Safe inside a picket fence With a great big trampoline And we'll have so many friends They'll live right on down the street And we'll never be scared again We will be a family, family