| Mama, I love you
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| Now I understand your pain
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| Mama, I need you
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| 'Cause I feel the very same
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| Mama, I thank you
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| For all the love you gave
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| Even though I lost my way
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| I know I’ll always be right there for you
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| Never understood the drama, never understood you, mother
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| All that pain you
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| I was lost, lost like you and, now, I was wrong
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| Done wrong like you, but now, now
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| Now I understand your thinking and understand you’re sinking
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| 'Cause I’m drinkin' to forgive it
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| Sorry if my lyrics ever made you lose a wink
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| And I’m sorry I barely came to see you when you were ill
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| I just didn’t want it to be real
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| I saw my two aunts pass the same year
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| And we nearly lost dad in them same tears
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| So my hero looked so small and so scared
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| When I was up in court here
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| But I live my own freedom, my own wars and my own fears
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| Should have been a better man anyway
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| I’m still learnin', let me try again, I
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| Mama, I love you
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| Now I understand your pain
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| Mama, I need you
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| 'Cause I feel the very same
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| Mama, I thank you
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| For all the love you gave
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| Even though I lost my way
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| I know I’ll always be right there for you
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| I remember hitting the screams, pale face when you said that you’d leave
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| Now I wish I could just take you with me
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| 'Cause now I understand why you hated the way that I speak
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| I don’t wanna live sometimes, that’s why I’m smokin' this weed
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| And I was just a little kid, soaked up in innocence
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| Thought you was ignorant but, queen, you would struggle within
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| Love you like my father does, gave me strength and gave me love
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| Now let me give you all my heart
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| Mama, I love you
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| Now I understand your pain
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| Mama, I need you
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| 'Cause I feel the very same
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| Mama, I thank you
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| For all the love you gave
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| Even though I lost my way
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| I know I’ll always be right there for you
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| (Woah, woah)
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| (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
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| And thank you for the love, mother
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| And thank you for the hearts, mother
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| And thank you for the hell you went through
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| So me and Laura could live better (Ooh)
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| And thank you for my life, mother
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| You taught me how to fight, mother
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| And thank you for the positives
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| 'Cause you raised a young man through all the strugglin'
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| And thank you for love and thank you for my heart (Ooh) |