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[00:39.46]Seventy hours a week
[00:41.24]It amazes me the power in her feet
[00:43.13]With no sleep she raised me
[00:44.94]A cocktail waitress with three babies
[00:46.88]Who will not fail in a race to try and save me
[00:49.61]From humiliation pain and heartache
[00:51.74]And still I don’t hesitate to learn it the hard way
[00:54.69]She knows she can’t control that
[00:56.32]But I love her every effort
[00:57.56]It just shows where her souls at
[00:59.51]And I know that she hated our poverty
[01:01.50]And the clothes donated by the Salvation Army
[01:03.83]Honestly I stare at her honorably
[01:06.32]She’s more then a mom to me
[01:08.05]Whole-heartedly I say that
[01:09.93]Knowing there is no pay back
[01:11.23]For those who are constantly giving
[01:12.96]I just pray that she knows that I care and love her
[01:15.81]I see the cross she bares
[01:17.30]As she walks through the struggle
[01:18.57]And still she remains humble in uncertainty
[01:20.97]As her life changed with two major brain surgeries
[01:23.53]And an insurance agency she gotta argue with
[01:26.29]To get the medicine she needs inside her arteries
[01:28.70]And though it’s hard for me
[01:29.94]To understand just how she does it
[01:31.55]I know I’m a better man because of it
[01:33.60]So many cracks that us people can fall through
[01:35.53]Yet the love of your mother still calls you
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[01:58.66]Father is an ex-marine
[01:59.99]And for my moms I know he’d drop everything
[02:02.14]Reading psalms he’d stop and try to tell me things
[02:04.58]He knew I wouldn’t understand
[02:06.11]Until I got inside the hell of things
[02:08.16]And the bell would ring and I would go rounds
[02:10.21]Fighting on a similar road he had to go down
[02:12.70]Without him I’d have no sound no soul
[02:15.07]And definitely no rock and roll
[02:17.28]Regardless of the copies I sold he still backs me
[02:19.91]Reaching for that level as the devil keeps attacking me
[02:22.92]Is this how it has to be
[02:24.43]Well if it happens to you then it happens to me
[02:26.97]He said that’s the meaning of family
[02:29.39]Form a team of the people you love understand me
[02:32.32]He always knew that there was more to me
[02:33.84]Supporting me
[02:34.61]Reassuring me to be proud of being Portuguese
[02:37.29]And though I’m sure that he
[02:38.51]Don’t understand just how I love him
[02:39.72]The conversation we had and how I learned from them
[02:42.22]Contemplating with dad on how the worlds turning
[02:44.44]Concentrating on the good
[02:45.64]When the bad is hurting someone
[02:47.34]I heard from someone
[02:48.31]We are the light that shines through
[02:49.58]And it helps to know your family is right behind you
[02:51.97]So many cracks that us people can fall through
[02:53.96]Yet the love of your father still calls you
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