Mother (Acoustic Version)

She lost her mind

You bet that it was scary

Time after time

Babe I can still barely believe it's the truth

Some nights I find I catch myself staring into space

Wondering how I stayed safe

Thinking round what I went through

Gave and gave

Hoping I could save it

Days on days

I thought she wouldn't make it

That I was crazy too

All the ways

Convinced that I should take it

Achin' to shake it all loose

Promised myself that I wouldn't fake it with you

I miss my mother

I miss my brother too

I ran for cover

Then slipped I've fallen through

Now you're my lover

But there's nothing I can do to help you

if you won't help yourself

Then I guess I'll be missing you too

Stayed in bed

Until it got dark out

What a waste of time

I always said

That we'd find a way round

Have I lost that lie

Days I spent

Just pouring my heart out

Tears now in your eyes

I can get through the night without promise of sunrise

I miss my mother

I miss my brother too

I ran for cover

Then slipped I've fallen through

Now you're my lover

But there's nothing I can do to help you

if you won't help yourself

Then I guess I'll be missing you too

Those long days

Too long in the shade

We missed the sun on our faces

the air and the grace of being us

We both got stuck

In the dust in the dirt in the mud

You missed the child in you

And I missed the child in me

We helped to keep them alive

But now's our time to be free

Put them to bed

Knock this nostalgia on it's head

It's not over till it's over

What's left is getting older

I miss my mother

I miss my brother too

I ran for cover

Then slipped I've fallen through

I miss the days that I spent

Living without my regrets

I miss the ways that I went

Before you

I miss my mother

I miss her more and more

Can miss another

Yes I stopped keeping score

Now you're my lover

And I'm not really sure what to do

'Cause babe if you won't help yourself

Then I guess I'll be missing you too