Brandi Carlile – The Mother (Guitar)

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Welcome to the end of being alone inside your mind

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You're 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

       G
She is 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 hold you while you're sleeping and I wish that I could go

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All my rowdy friends are out accomplishing their dreams

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But I am the mother of Evangeline

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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, oh

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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

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You were not an accident where no one thought it through

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The world that stood agaisnt us made us mean to fight for you

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And when we chose your name we knew you'd fight the power too

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You're nothing short of magical and beautiful to me

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I'll never hit the bigtime 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

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Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

C    C/B  Am   G
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

C    C/B  Am   G
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh