CHORUS:
Mama, Mama
Why is it hard, hard for me to love?
Mama, Mama
I have the scars that make it hard for me to love
Mama, Mama
You make it hard, make it hard for me to love
Mama, Mama
You gave me scars and here they are: the reasons why I cannot love
VERSE 1:
I was young
Younger than you knew
I was laboring
Under notions misconstrued
That this was love that you gave
Every night, all the same
Bend me over, beat me colder
Cold hands
Cold heart
Cold lips, never uttering a loving thing and
Cold arms is all that I began to know
I used to steal your lipstick
Just to feel like I was someone different
i snuck away but when you came
you made me smoke that pack of cigarettes, i
i felt your power, i watched you tower
over me i hope you see all of your regrets now
Chorus
VERSE TWO:
she was older, older than me
and she took the blame for everything
you were mean, you were cruel
made me watch her bleed for you
made me sit and cry, confess to lies you knew we didn't do
and
many men came and went
broken bottles and blood, and sweat
and sex i saw it all
i watched you fall
i screamed the day you drowned her
and denied the things i saw
i kept your letter, it said you loved me
and I believed it, can't say the same for Nelly
She had her baby, this is number three
She's kind of like you, but I pray they turn out just like me