Mom's Song Testo

she just stole some cigarettes for her older bro
she's not even seven and she's got a black eye and a bloody nose, well
the next ten years, this is how it goes
one brother at the war, another who brings his fighting home
she dreams of a place where she can make a change
she finds California's calling out her name
so she says goodbye to misery and shame
just hopes when she gets there the things that she knows will not be the same
the place where she was born
there now stands a corner store
her childhood is no more
but is she happy now?
she's about to go westward when she sees a ring
behind that's a man who's down on bended knee
so she trades in her sunny beaches for raising me
she knows in her heart of hearts there still are some things that she'll never see
the place where she was born
there now stands a corner store
her childhood is no more
but is she happy now?
the dreams she's sacrificed
the tears she's cried at night
but still she's raised me right
but is she happy now?
if I don't say every day how I love her so
then I brought a great injustice to the world
she bought me my first guitar and a microphone
and I'll use them to share the love, which is all I have ever known
the place where she was born
there now stands a corner store
her childhood is no more
but is she happy now?
the dreams she's sacrificed
the tears she's cried at night
but still she's raised me right
but is she happy now?