Annie Maxwell - My Mother's Tears Lyrics

Nine years
Since I started
Sleeping in
Not trying my hardest
I didn't know
That my soul was tired
She spoke so low
Like the embers of the fire

Oh the things we carry
And the things we hold
Oh, they live in our blood
And they live in our bones
And I got this hole, hole, hole
In my heart that I built my life around
And though it's hard I know it's time
To fill it with light
And climb out

I take a small blue pill in the morning
To escape from all my pain
It has nowhere to go
The bitch has no legs
And I've tried to run
I've tried to hide
I've tried everything, everything, everything
To avoid the power in my own eyes

Oh the things we carry
And the things we hold
Oh, they live in our blood
And they live in our bones
And I got this hole, hole, hole
In my heart that I built my life around
And though it's hard I know it's time
To fill it with light
And climb out

My mother's tears
Belong to me
And her mother's tears
Belong to her
Maternal lines
I chart them all
From Pacific coastlines
To the Western Wall

Oh the things we carry
And the things we hold
Oh, they live in our blood
And they live in our bones
And I got this hole, hole, hole
In my heart, that I built my life around
And though it's hard I know it's time
To fill it with light
And climb out