Original Broadway Cast of Beetlejuice
Dead Mom - DC Version
[LYDIA]
Dead Mom, Dead Mom
I need a little help here
I'm prob'ly talking to myself here
But Dead Mom, I gotta ask
People say you're in the ground
But I feel you all around me
Are you here, Dead Mom?
Dead Mom

Dead Mom
If you were here I know that you would listen
Daddy's real estate ambitions
Are completely off the charts
Evr'y day he's staring at me
Like all 'hurry up, get happy!'
Move along
Dead Mom

But, Daddy's in denial
Daddy doesn't wanna feel
He wants mе to smile and clap
Like a performing sеal
Ignored it for a while
But, Daddy's lost his mind for real
You won't believe the mess that we've become
Dead Mom
My father is the greatest of pretenders
I wish his perfect picket fences
Would impale him through the heart
This carousel of painted ponies
Spins around filled up with phonies
And there's no fun
Without you here, Dead Mom

The world is cold
And no one listens
No mom to hold
Just dad's indifference
Trying not to break
What's it gonna take?
Are you receiving?
Give me somethin' to believe in
Or I'm done

Take me where my soul can run
Or I'll be in my bedroom
Wake me when I'm twenty-one
Daddy's moving forward
Daddy didn't lose a mom

Mama, won't you send a sign?
I'm running out of hope and time
A plague of mice, a lightning strike
Or drop a nuclear bomb
No more playing Daddy's game
I'll go insane if things don't change
Whatever it takes to make him say your name
Dead Mom