Half-Lit - Single Mothers

She wakes up lonely She wakes up lonely She hangs a picture by the phone She hangs a picture by the phone Yeah, she doesn't think we're gonna make it But when I'm home we're sleeping naked And we pretend that we're in love She wakes up lonely And she telephones me To ask me if I'm coming home She says "Will you be coming home? Yeah, She doesn't think we're gonna make it But when I'm home we're sleeping naked And we pretend that we're in love It was different when we thought that we wanted the same thing Everything was figured out And now it doesn't make much sense Yeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhh It's just another thing she can't get She doesn't think we're gonna make it But when i'm home we're sleeping naked And we pretend that we're in love yeeeeeeeaaaaahh She likes to think we're in love She like to think that we're in love

To the mothers who aren't sleeping That are having trouble feeding Too afraid to say they're not okay No, not at all To the mothers who feel empty That aren't sure they're even ready To be alone and responsible For somebody so small To the mothers who are lost Pulled underneath the waves Who need to cry for help But are drowning in their shame To the mothers who are falling And don't even make a sound Who don't know that they're broken Until they hit the ground This one's for you I've been there too I've been there too To the mother that's at home Scrolling through her phone Watching everybody else Make family look easy To the mom with a career Who can't take off a whole year So she has to pay somebody else To take care of her baby To the mothers who are lost Pulled underneath the waves Who need to cry for help But are drowning in their shame To the mothers who are falling And don't even make a sound Who don't know that they're broken Until they hit the ground This one's for you I've been there too And one day you'll discover Going from a woman to a mother It might break you but it might save you To the mother in the mirror Who wishes she was thinner 'Cause now her body isn't Somebody that she knows And to the mothers just like me Who fell apart so suddenly I hope you realize You're not alone This one's for you This one's for you 'Cause I've been there too I've been there too (I love you, mom)

Took me in her arms and made me beleive You could be anything That's what she said to me I know you just want what is best for me I should be loved I should be free But mama each and every time They've been tryna find a reason to doubt me And the further I climb, they get louder tryna shout me down Well sooner or later Someone's gonna get hurt I'll know where to turn 'Cause all I need Is in my mother's eyes In my mother's eyes What it means to be me, what it means to be happy That's what she hopes for me That's what she gave to me But mama each and every time They've been tryna find a reason to doubt me And the further I climb, they get louder tryna shout me down Well, sooner or later Someone's gonna get hurt But I'll know where to turn 'Cause all I need Is in my mother's eyes In my mother's eyes In my mother's eyes In my mother's eyes, oh, oh, oh Whoa, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh Whoa, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh Na, na, na, na, na, na, na Whoa, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh See all you've done (whoa, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh) Is more, more than enough (whoa, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh) And all that matters to me (whoa, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh) Is how I will be How I will be seen In my mother's eyes (whoa, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh) In my mother's eyes (whoa, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh) In my mother's eyes (whoa, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh) In my mother's eyes (whoa, oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh, oh, oh)

You will grow all you need to grow inside my spine And then take what you need to take, what's yours is mine And then just give all you want of it to some new thing I'll stay here, the provider of that constant sting they call love They call love You will drain all you need to drain out of me All the colors have washed away, no more rosy sheen Not just a pale isolated shallow, what a place Oh, what a place I call myself I call myself Oh, love all you need to love before it goes When your face becomes a stranger's I don't know You will never remember who I was to you Carried in the womb I'm called mother I'm called mother They're called home They're called home They're called They're called Mothers Mothers Give all you need to give And sometimes they won't take what they need to take The strangest chemical reaction Inside of her brain, no she's not the same No, she's not the same No, she's not the same