For nine months you carried
me softly inside you
Harbored me there safe and warm
And picked out my names and
bought new picture frames
And I'm sure, oh may
God love me more
Kicking and screaming,
I came to life dreaming
Loving the sounds of your words
But pretty soon I had a mind
of my own enables
Speaking out to be heard
Oh mother, mother
We started out with a bang
Oh, mother, mother
It's funny how quickly things change
You feel you gave up
too much to be with me
And you never had enough help
Through your middle ages
and your midlife wages
Do you feel that you've lost yourself?
And you try to control me and
ma nipulate me
But love is a much stronger tool
So speak to me kindly and show some re spect
And I promise I'll show some to you
Oh, mother, mother
Your picture's up there on the wall
Oh, mother, mother
But it's like I don't know you at all
Oh -oh -oh -oh -oh -oh -oh -oh
Oh -oh -oh -oh -oh -oh -oh -oh
For whatever reason,
the mother and daughter live on a double -edged sword
One day I love you, the next day I hate you,
until we don't talk anymore
And as my daughter's blue eyes
are there staring back at me
And I love them more than
my own breath
Time's gonna tell if I have listened well
If I've learned anything from all this
Oh mother, mother
I know there's more to you than this
Oh mother, mother
Do you think that we could
be friends?
Oh mother, mother
I think that we could be friends
you