| Written by john curulewski | |
| Lead vocals by john curulewski | |
| Lonely feelings in the city | |
| One room flat with crumbling walls | |
| Sirens play a distant melody | |
| Neon shadows paint the halls | |
| In the thirteen months i've spent here | |
| With my manuscript and rhymes | |
| I've paid in cash for foolish pleasures | |
| Mother dear you'd call them crimes | |
| Raise the roof | |
| Light the lite | |
| Mother dear i'm returning tonight | |
| Now i see | |
| Your concern | |
| Mother dear how you taught me to learn | |
| I been a roman for survival | |
| Showing two sides of my face | |
| I need the comfort of your wisdom | |
| I'm coming home to your embrace | |
| If by chance i pass before you | |
| Don't discount my gratitude | |
| You're responsible for me here | |
| And of course my attitude | |
| Raise the roof | |
| Light the lite | |
| Mother dear i'm returning tonight | |
| Now i see | |
| Your concern | |
| Mother dear how you taught me to learn | |
| Stayin' up half the night | |
| Wonderin' if what i'm doin' is right | |
| Raise the roof | |
| Light the lite | |
| Mother dear i'm returning tonight |