Songs about conflicts with parents

[low-key]

Mamas Broken Heart


I cut my bangs with some rusty kitchen scissors
I screamed his name 'till the neighbors called the cops
I numbed the pain at the expense of my liver the pain at the expense of my liver
I don't know what I did next all I know, I couldn't stop

Word got around to the barflies and the baptists
My mama's phone started ringin' off the hook
I can hear her now sayin' she ain't gonna have it
Don't matter how you feel, it only matters how you look

Go and fix you make-up, girl it's just a breakup
Run and hide you crazy and start actin' like a lady
'Cause I raised you better, gotta keep it together
Even when you fall apart, but this ain't my Mama's Broken Heart

Wish I could be just a little less dramatic
Like a kennedy when Camelot went down in flames
Leave it to me to be holdin' the matches
When the fire trucks show up and there's nobody else to blame

Can't get revenge and keep a spotless reputation
Sometimes revenge is a choice you gotta make
My mama came from a softer generation
Where you get a grip and bite your lip just to save a little face

Go and fix your make-up, girl it's just a breakup
Run and hide you crazy and start actin' like a lady
'Cause I raised you better, gotta keep it together
Even when you fall apart, this ain't my Mama's Broken Heart

Powder your nose, Paint your toes
Line you lips and keep 'em closed
Cross your legs and dot your i's
And never let 'em see you cry

Go and fix your make-up, girl it's just a breakup
Run and hide your crazy and start actin' like a lady
'Cause I raised you better, gotta keep it together
Even when you fall apart, well this ain't my Mama's Broken Heart

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Run Joey Run!

 

[mnrose]

Bruce Springsteen, Independence Day

Well Papa go to bed now it's getting late
Nothing we can say is gonna change anything now
I'll be leaving in the morning from St. Mary's Gate
We wouldn't change this thing even if we could somehow
'Cause the darkness of this house has got the best of us
There's a darkness in this town that's got us too
But they can't touch me now
And you can't touch me now
They ain't gonna do to me
What I watched them do to you

So say goodbye it's Independence Day
It's Independence Day
All down the line
Just say goodbye it's Independence Day
It's Independence Day this time

Now I don't know what it always was with us
We chose the words, and yeah, we drew the lines
There was just no way this house could hold the two of us
I guess that we were just too much of the same kind

Well say goodbye it's Independence Day
It's Independence Day all boys must run away
So say goodbye it's Independence Day
All men must make their way come Independence Day

Now the rooms are all empty down at Frankie's joint
And the highway she's deserted down to Breaker's Point
There's a lot of people leaving town now
Leaving their friends, their homes
At night they walk that dark and dusty highway all alone

Well Papa go to bed now it's getting late
Nothing we can say can change anything now
Because there's just different people coming down here now
And they see things in different ways
And soon everything we've known will just be swept away

So say goodbye it's Independence Day
Papa now I know the things you wanted that you could not say
But won't you just say goodbye it's Independence Day
I swear I never meant to take those things away

 

[design_mom]

1960s 1-hit wonder Claudine Clark's "Party Lights"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zncsJKtEd_M&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[low-key]

Once you understand
(this is one of the corniest songs ever, I remember from a kid)

Things get a little easier
Once you understand
Things get a little easier
Once you understand...

I'll be expecting you to
Get a haircut by Friday
(Forget it, Dad)
(That won't change anything)
Forget nothing, you'll do as I say
As long as you're living in my house

He knows I'm not feeling well
And yet he doesn't take one
Second out to help his mother
His only concern is for himself

(Come on, Ma)
(What do you want from me)
Don't argue with your mother
Just shut up and listen

But, Mom, all my
Friends will be there
(I said, no, you can't go)
But why
(I don't want you
In that neighborhood)
Why, what's wrong
With that neighborhood
(I don't like the kind of
People living there)
Why, what's wrong with them
(Nevermind)
(Some day, you'll thank me)

Are you sure no one kept you
Company tonight while
You were babysitting
(What's that supposed to mean)
Just curious
(Admit it, Mom, you don't trust me)

Where are you going now
(To my friend's house)
Don't you have things
To do in the house
Don't you have any homework
Why don't you sit down
And read a book (oh, ma)

Don't oh, Ma, me
You're wasting your life
Away with the foolish things
(What are you talking about
How about your bridge club
And your ladies groups
And your parties and
Your daytime programs
What about all that)
That's different

Ma, I'll be home at eleven
(You better be home at ten or
Don't bother to come home at all)

When I was your age
I was working twelve hours a day
Six days a week helping to pay
For the food and the rent
(I don't understand, what's
That got to do with me)
If you can't figure that out
For yourself, you're stupid

Hey, Dad
Did you see my new guitar
I joined a group
(Son, there's a little bit more
To life than joining a group
And playing the guitar)
Yeah, Dad, what is there to life

Mister Cook (yes)
You have a son named Robert
Robert Cook, age seventeen (yes)
I'm sorry, Mister Cook
You better come down
To the station house
You son is dead (dead, how)
He died of an overdose (oh, God)

 

[LuLuO]

Young Turks - Rod Stewart

 

[POPCITY]

Yakkity Yak

 

[Lorelei Lee]

Cat Stevens' "Father and Son"

And of course this lyric:

"Don't you ever ask them why
If they told you, you would cry
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you."

 

[Claudia Kellenberger]

Here's a song that totally rips my heart out every time I hear it ...

" I Can Never Go Home Anymore' by The Shangri-Las (1965)

Whenever I hear this song I need to call my Mom just to say "I Love You".

 

[Jafar30]

Parents Just Don't Understand

 

[lauradis]

Madonna papa don't preach

 

[Imzadi]

Cat's In The Cradle by Harry Chapin. Not exactly conflict, but a dad who never made time for his kid. Then his kid did it to him later in life.

 

[Fortuosity]

My Mama Said - ABBA - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92L6balksi8

 

[Maverick0980]

Mama Said by Metallica

Mama she has taught me well
Told me when I was young
Son, your life's an open book
Don't close it fore it's done
The brightest flame burns quickest
Is what I heard they say
A son's heart's owned to mother
But I must find my way

*Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama let my heart go
Or let this heart be still

Rebel my new last name
Wild blood in my veins
Apron strings around my neck
The mark that still remains
Left home at an early age
Of what I heard was wrong
I never asked forgiveness
But what I said is done

"[* Repeat]"

**Never I ask you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
I now take to my grave
Never I ask of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
I now take to my grave
So let this heart be still

Mama now I'm coming home
I'm not all you wished of me
But a mother's love for her son
Unspoken, Help me be
I took your love for granted
And all the things you said to me
I need your arms to welcome me
But a cold stone's all I see

"[* Repeat]"

Let my heart go
Mama let my heart go
You never let my heart go
So let this heart be still

"[** Repeat]"

 

[Fortuosity]

Leader of the Pack - The Shangri-Las - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McvWodRXA7k

 

[Pea-n-Me]

She's Leaving Home, Beatles

 

[E&Cmom]

Girls just want to have fun- Cyndi Lauper

 

[Disney Doll]

Papa Dont Preach

 

[Hisgirl]

Condition Red The Goodees-1968

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aWnFPNB-Zc

 

[Lorelei Lee]

Elton John, "Benny and the Jets" -- where we fight our parents out in the streets to find out who's right and who's wrong