I'm Crying (Mother's Tears)

Bathed in the water she ran every morning

Smacked in the bed she turned down every night

I’m strong in food she prepared for me

Now I’m all grown up

Heating my hands on the very cold days

Drenched in the rain almost every school game

And in the middle of a scare, she’s there

To wake me up

I’m strong enough, I’m tough enough

I’m full enough, I’m crying my mother’s tears

I’m warm enough, I’ve played enough

Loved enough, I’m crying my mother’s tears

Treating my cuts with her own remedies

Combing my hair while she covered my knees

And sent me books I was forbidden to read

Educating me

I was there by her side when my grandmother died

Her weakness is strength, she’s unable to cry

And lover’s tears fell from father’s eyes

She was all cried out

I’m strong enough, I’m tough enough

Slept enough, I’m crying my mother’s tears

I’m well enough, I’ve read enough

I’ve loved enough, I’m crying my mother’s tears

Cause I’m doing my best

To keep her living the rest

I’m trying (you cry every night until dawn)

To stay awake (don’t make me regret you were born)

I’m falling in (your faces are covered in red)

I’m having public display (and your mother don’t have the last word)

Crashing (I’m coming from the rain)

To the thunder (and don’t let me hear you complain)

Scattering myself (tell me nothing’s real)

Over the floor (you can feel my pain)

Little memories of our past

Remind me of how I used to make her mad

I’m crying, I’m crying

I’m strong enough, I’m tough enough

Full enough, I’m crying my mother’s tears

She shed enough, she’s pled enough

Well enough, I’m crying my mother’s tears

I’m strong enough, I’m tough enough

I’m brave enough to face my mother’s fears