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Artist: Anneke van Giersbergen
Canonical path: /anneke-van-giersbergen/my-mother-said
Related lyric paths: 6
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My Mother Said
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My Mother Said
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My mother said “I gained a friend
At the end of the heart to heart.”
My mother asked, “will you be fine
With the choices you make in your life?”
And you pick me up
And you hold me close
And you show the way
And you let me go
My father said, “use your head
The guys upstairs, they just don’t care.”
My father asked, “will you be safe
When you are always so far away?”
And you pick me up
And you hold me close
And you show the way
And you let me go
I let the light into my life
Close my eyes before I die
And you let me go
And you sent me off
Into the sky
Always believe in me, always beside me
I’ve come this far and I'll be going
Farther than the stars
And you pick me up
And you hold me close
And you take my hand
And you watch me grow
And you show the way
And you let me go
I let the light into my life
Close my eyes before I die
And you let me go
You let me go
My mother said, “I gained a friend.”
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Anneke van Giersbergen performs "My Mother Said", and this lyric page sits inside the Anneke van Giersbergen catalog on LyroVerse.
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