The Mother Chords by Brandi Carlile

[Start]

[Intro]
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[Verse]
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Welcome to the end of being alone inside your mind
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You tethered to another and you're worried all the time
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You always knew the melody but you never heard it rhyme
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■  She's fair and she is quiet Lord she doesn't look like me
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She made me love the morning she's a holiday at sea
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The New York streets are as busy as they always used to be 
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But I am the mother of Evangeline ■ 
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The first things that she took from me were selfishness and sleep
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She broke a thousand heirlooms I was never meant to keep
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She filled my life with color cancelled plans and trashed my car
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But none of that is ever who we are
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Outside of my windows are the mountains and the snow
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I'll hold you while you're sleeping and I wish that I could go
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All my rowdy friends around accomplishing their dreams
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But I am the mother of Evangeline ■ 


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


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


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


[Outro]
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Ooh ■  ooh
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Ooh ■ 


[End]