Mother (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 8/28/70)

[Spoken Intro: Robert Lamm]
This song
Is on the third album
If we ever finish
We're about halfway through a [?]
I don't know what's gonna happen, though
Uh, it's sort of a weird album
I mean, for us
It's the first time we've ever been in a studio
And uh, I've been paranoid
Y'know?
I don't know
It's a combination of the first and the second
I dunno
This song, is sort a
Doesn't really necessarily mean
That this is what's bad we're all in
'Cause I don't think it's in any bad
Yeah
It's called "Mother"
It's about all the shit you're breathin'
In through your nose and your mouth
From all the beautiful industry
That is making progress
To kill us all
Very soon

[Verse 1: Robert Lamm]
Driving down the concrete beams
Looking around and it now seems
Yеah, I

[Chorus: Robert Lamm, with bandmates]
Mama Earth is nowhere
Gone from your еye-eye-eyes
Hidden in the crust
Of man's scientific dreams
She is gone

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 2: Robert Lamm]
Natural man took her natural face
Made it a strange and alien place
Oh!

[Chorus: Robert Lamm, with bandmates]
You can't bear to look up
She ain't there-ere-ere
Our Mother has been raped
And left to die in disgrace
She is gone

[Instrumental Outro]