Treat Me Like Your Mother
"Treat Me Like Your Mother" is a single released by the alternative rock band The Dead Weather. It is the second single released off of the band's debut album Horehound (after "Hang You from the Heavens" was released in March 2009). The single was released on May 25, 2009, and released with the album on July 14, 2009.
The song was co-written by every member of the band. Alison Mosshart told Mojo magazine about the writing process of the band: "Everybody just did what they wanted. I wrote most of the lyrics because that's my favorite thing, and everybody wrote different parts to the music- someone would lead with something and I'd be writing furiously, and within an hour we'd have something good enough to record or work on. It was super-easy and super-quick."
As a b-side, the 7" vinyl single features as "You Just Can't Win", a Van Morrison penned song originally performed by Them and featured on the album The Angry Young Them. The digital single has no b-side, though an alternate version of the digital single features a remix of the title track by the DJ Diplo instead of the album version.
Treat Me Like Your Mother
Don't act like you can't act
I know what you think you're doing
You better learn to shake hands
And treat me like your mother
Don't act like you can't act
Stand up like a man
You better learn to shake hands
And treat me like your mother
You came up too late
You came up too late now
You came up too late
To do a thing
Come on look me in the eye
You wanna try to tell a lie?
I bet you can't, you know why?
I'm dressed like your mother
Look me in the eye now!
You wanna try to tell a lie?
You can't, you know why?
I'm dressed like your mother
You came up too late
You came up too late now
You came up too late
Play dumb
Play dead
Play straight
Who's got it figured out?
Play dumb
Play dead
Play straight
Who's got it figured out?
Play straight
Try to manipulate
Yeah!
M-a-n-i-p-u-late (x4)
Am I to
Am I late?
Am I (x4)
Am I too late?
Who's got it figured out?
Left right left right
Got it figured out
Who's got it figured out?
Play straight
Stand up like a man
You better learn to shake hands
You better look me in the eye now
Treat me like your mother
Come on look me in the eye
You wanna try to tell a lie?
You can't, you know why?
I'm dressed like your mother
Play dumb
Play dead
Try to manipulate
You blink when you breathe
And you breathe when you lie
You blink when you lie
You blink when you breathe
And you breathe when you lie
You blink when you lie
You blink when you breathe
And you breathe when you lie
You blink when you lie
Who's got it figured out?
Left right left right
Got it figured out?
Who's got it figured out?
Play straight
Try and manipulate
Who's got it figured out?
Left right left right
Who's got it figured out?
Play straight
Try to manipulate
You blink when you breathe
And you breathe when you lie
You blink when you lie
Who's got it figured out?