Brandi Carlile - The Mother

[Verse 1]
Welcome to the end of being
alone inside your mind.
You're tethered to another,
and you're worried all the time.
You always knew the melody,
but you never heard it rhyme.

[Verse 2]
She's fair and she is quiet, Lord.
She doesn't look like me.
She made me love the morning,
she's a holiday at sea.
The New York streets are as busy
as they always used to be,
but I am the mother of Evangeline.

[verse 3]
The first things that she took from me
were selfishness and sleep.
She broke a thousand heirlooms
I was never meant to keep.
She filled my life with color,
cancelled plans, and trashed my car,
but none of that was ever who we are.

[Verse 4]
Outside of my windows are
the mountains and the snow.
I hold you while you're sleeping and
I wish that I could go.
All my rowdy friends are out
accomplishing their dreams,
but I am the mother of Evangeline.

[Bridge]
They've still got their morning paper
and their coffee and their time.
And they still enjoy their evenings
with the skeptics and the wine.
Oh, but all the wonders I have seen,
I will see a second time
from inside of the ages through your eyes.

[Verse 5]
You are not an accident
where no one thought it through.
The world has stood against us,
made us mean to fight for you.
And when we chose your name,
we knew that you'd fight the power, too.

[Verse 6]
You're nothing short of magical
and beautiful to me.
I'll never hit the big time without you.
So they can keep their treasure
and their ties to the machine
'cause I am the mother of Evangeline.

They can keep their treasure
and their ties to the machine
'cause I am the mother of Evangeline.

[Outro]
Ooh, ooh
Ooh.