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Well, the telephone is ringing
Is that my mother on the phone?
Telephone is ringing
Is that my mother on the phone?
The telephone is screaming
Won't she leave me alone
The telephone is ringing
Is that my mother on the phone?

Well every girl that I go out with
Becomes my mother in the end
Every girl I go out with
Becomes my mother in the end
Well, I hear my mother calling
But I don't need her as a friend
When every girl I go out with
Becomes my mother in the end

Oh, oh, mother

Oh mother dear please listen
And don't devour me
Oh mother dear please listen
Don't devour me
Oh women please have mercy
Let this poor boy be
Oh mother dear please listen
And don't devour me

Oh mother

Well, the telephone is ringing
Is that my mother on the phone?
Telephone is ringing
Is that my mother on the phone?
The telephone is screaming
Won't she leave me alone
The telephone is ringing
Is that my mother on the phone?

Oh mother
Oh, mother, mother
Mother
Mother, mother, mother, mother, mother
Mother
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Cover art for Mother lyrics by Police, The

This song is actually fucking hilarious. Definitely NOT The Police's best song, though, as Synchronicity II on the same album is the greatest song they have ever composed. :)

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About a frustraterd Momma's Boy.

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The song is sung by Andy Summers and is intended to sound disturbing. I think the only other song Andy Summers does vocals on is "Be My Girl -- Sally" which is also about a sexually disturbed man. Get some help, Andy!

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awww, don't hate. this song was not put on the album to lull the eardrums into musical bliss. it's about a twisted oedipus complex. pretty neat.

@ringoruby Exactly!! The album is a mixture of different songs and no one can say this song is boring. It is demented and this album did ok with some of that insanity.

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Settle down, people. This wasn't a single; it isn't meant to be a transcendent song. Andy is certainly not a great singer, but it's not like he's trying to sound beautiful. He's just trying to evoke a (disturbed) character.

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i actually really like this song. it feels (to me anyway) kinda intense. I dont know, maybe its just because im only a casual police fan. i will admit, it does get kinda repetitive, but i just think its a really good song. as for the meaning, it kinda reminds me of Psycho.

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Dismal. The worst Police song ever recorded. I guess it somehow plays into the psychological atmosphere of the "Synchronicity" album but really I think it's there to get under the skin.

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Well, my ears are ringing Is that song "Mother" playing again? Well, my ears are bleeding This song "Mother" needs to end!

Yeah, that's what the lyrics should have been.

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It's annoying and hilarious at the same time. I think it's about bad relationships with women. He used to feel harrassed by the mother, and now he feel the same toward the girls he go out with, so he's frustrated and exasperated. Not clear if the feeling is justified, or if it's just him that because of how suffocating was his mother now can't stand a healty relationship. Judging on how sick the singer sounds, probably the second. Sorry for my bad english.

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I think this song is Andy parodying Sting and his Jung fixation by invoking Freud.