
Date of issue: 23.09.2013
Record label: Orchard
Song language: English
Oh Mama No |
All day |
One long tethered motion: |
Sweep, stir, sow |
This is her kingdom |
An inheritance that you can’t deny |
Oh Mama no, oh Mama no |
Oh Mama no I will |
Come down, child |
From your gates and connections |
Sleep, slur, slow |
This is where you come from |
The anchor that you can’t leave behind |
Oh Mama no, oh Mama no |
Oh Mama no I will |
So Mama learns your tribal lingo |
Tolerates the time between calls |
Catalogues the years and makes a note of all your endless goings-on |
When her sentences start to repeat |
And her voice in the night is reaching — |
Oh Mama please don’t leave me |
And then one day |
In the boxes upon boxes: |
Grieve, give, go |
Maybe you can learn how — |
If you never feel the dark, never see the light |
Oh Mama no, oh Mama no |
Oh Mama no I will |
Oh Mama no, oh Mama no |
Oh Mama no I will |
Oh Mama know, oh Mama know — |
Mama you know I will |
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