No son of mine

I will always remember when I made sense of this song, when it resonated with my own life, when I finally heard someone talking about something that happened to me, when I visualised there was no point trying to talk to such people, because they will never acknowledge the pain they cause to others and amend themselves. I was in my early 40s. The lyrics express what an adult goes through when he goes back to parents he flew away from in his youth. As he thinks he is going to confront them, he finds himself blamed by his father for abandoning him and his mother. Like in the past, his voice is not heard, his feelings are dismissed, the shortcomings of the parental behaviours are not acknowledged by the wrong-doers. No. The wrong-doers keep wrong-doing. Not just with their children. They wrong whoever they ensnare. They buy people with gifts too lavish for the occasion: friends, children, lovers... They always buy people with the plan to get something more worthy out of the transaction,…