Mom's Rhapsody

This has to be the finale song, it is so epic. My idea is that we introduce this as a rock opera with Tess playing the role of an overworked mom, and Makena playing the role of her deceased mother's ghost.

[Tess & band] 

Is this my real life? Or my kids’ fantasy?
Having a bad day, need escape from reality

Struggling to cope, reached the end of my rope you see

[Tess]
I'm just a poor mom, I need some sympathy

[band] 

because she’s overworked, underpaid, never thanked, not obeyed
[Tess]

Listen to this next verse, this is what my kids say, to me, to me

[Tess]

Mama, I just spilled a can

of something on the floor

clean it up and get me more

Mama, dinner's just begun

but now I'm done and throwing the rest away

Mama, ooh-oo-oo-ooh,

gotta go, I need a ride

and can you pick me up in half an hour?

On and on, on and on, 

as if my time doesn't matter

[Makena]

Too late, to change the plan

with kids coming out her ears

it might, be like this for years

Back when, she was younger, it seemed to her

that she never treated me like bacon grease

[Tess] Mama, ooh-oo-oo-ooh,

[Makena] Yes, my dear, what is it?

[Tess] I know you’ve passed on

[Tess] I always treated you with great respect

[guitar solo]

[Tess] I hear a little voice from inside of my head

[Makena] “Isn’t true, isn’t true, you kids almost made me whacko”

[band] Questioning her choices, now she’s hearing voices too!

[Makena] It’s your mother, 

[Tess] it’s my mother, 

[Makena] It’s your mother, 

[Tess] it’s my mother, 

[band] It’s her mother’s angry ghost, magnifico-oh-oh-oh

[Tess] “I was an angel, that’s what you told me”

[Makena] You’re getting payback for your past revelry

[Makena] You should have known then that your turn would come

[Tess] Is it true? Are you sure? Did I cause you stress?

[Makena] My goodness! 

[band] Yes! 

[Makena] You always caused me stress! 

[band] caused me stress! 

[Makena] My goodness! You caused a lot of stress 

[band] lot of stress! 

[Makena] My goodness! Knew what buttons to press 

[band] what to press!

[Makena] Helping less & less

[band] less & less!

[Makena] Always left a mess

[band] she left a mess mess mess mess

[Makena & band] Tess, Tess, Tess, Tess, Tess, Tess, Tess!

[Tess]

Oh mamma mia, mamma mia, you are right, I must confess

I gave you flack, and now my kids do the same to me, to me, to me!

[Tess]

Yes, they think they can constantly mis-behave

Yes, they think they’re my master and I’m their slave

Oh, baby! There’s no “if”, “but”, or “maybe”!

This has to change, this has to be changed, do you hear?

[Tess, Makena, & band]

Oooh!

Oh, yeah!

Oh, yeah!

[Tess & Makena]

Nothing really changes, doesn’t help to shout
Nothing really changes

That is what this song’s all, about

[Tess] Must go blow my kid’s nose

[gong]