Motherhood

[Verse 1]

Take something to help you sleep

6AM you’re up to read the world's old anxieties

All the static you release

The sun stretches through the trees of the city

Where we grew up on east, picked blackberries

You raised a family

Your childhood was hard so you wanted ours to be easy

Did you always know what motherhood would mean?

[Chorus]

Sneaking cigarettes at fifteen

I always see you in every reflection of me

Our shared history, remembеred differently

I am a tributary, you arе the sea

[Verse 2]

Worked for the airline

Guess that you always liked the freedom of flying

Anything to set you free from that house, that town, that country

Did you always have that self destructive streak?

[Chorus]

Sneaking cigarettes at fifteen

I always see you in every reflection of me

Our shared history, remembered differently

I am a tributary, you are the sea

[Post-Chorus]

Remember what you told me

Remember what you told me

[Bridge]

Do I look like my mother in that old picture taken by my father?

Some forgotten summer

Do I look like my mother in that old picture taken by my father?

Some forgotten summer

My sisters and my brother, all images of her

All images of her

Do I look like my mother in that old picture taken by my father?

Some forgotten summer

Do I look like my mother in that old picture taken by my father? (Who, who, who am I without you?)

Some forgotten summer

Do I look like my mother in that old picture taken by my father? (Who, who, who am I without you?)

Some forgotten summer

Do I look like my mother in that old picture taken by my father? (Who, who, who am I without you?)

Some forgotten summer

Do I look like my mother in that old picture taken by my father? (Who, who, who am I without you?)

Some forgotten summer

[Outro]

Who, who, who am I without you?

Who, who, who am I without you?

Take something to help me sleep

Look in the mirror and see you in me