Ian 'N' A I

Lyrics

Momma, what would you say to me now
Knowing now what you didn't know then?
I know you felt trapped in a hopeless place
Five children under you with no one to help
Our father always had a bottle in his hand

You had hopes that I would grow up to be
Someone so like the world has never seen
You told me I was destined for something great
And I believed that that was my fate
O, but it was never to be

But momma, did you ever really love me
Or just the dreams you dreamed for me?
You thought of me as your only way out
And waited for something special to sprout
Then one day you realized
I was just an average man
That's when you stopped loving me
If indeed, you ever had

[Interlude]

I was let down so far I couldn't see
I hated life and it seemed to hate me
If you didn't really love me
I couldn't see how anyone else ever would
I didn't see any reason to live
And yet I had many years ahead of me

Momma, what would you say to me now
Can you now see that I was only a child
And never should have had to carry your pain
How it crushed the life out of me
O, Heaven knows how I tried to be
The answer to your desperate dreams
But I could never live up to them
And you and I never found true love

Momma, what would you say to me now?