You Mama You (Album Version-No One Is Really Beautiful)

When I was young and pushed around

And beaten up and beaten down

Who'd I run to mama tell me who

And as I grew to be a man

And all the world held such èlan

I did what

I thought

I just had to do

Chorus: It was you mama you, it was you all along

It was you

I ran away from

I was wrong

And if I could

I'd change my life

I swear to

God I'd cut it out with a knife

And with a glue stick

I'd reapply it in a song

And laid back

Kerouac never no a heart attack

Drinking and thinking about the place that he ran back to

The moloch is an old man the moloch is a love-lack

Bending for a quick snack remembering his friend

Jack And mama sometimes

I remember you

Chorus Man loves woman

Mother loves child

Sometimes

I call my lady mama

So I can feel at home for a while

So I can feel at home for a while

Looking around at all the

Mellencamp towns

The excuses and the nooses where the coffee grounds

I found places and traces of a storybook world

And I went out there for a ride

On the misty coast but the holy host

Is under Mickey

D's American flag and it's unfurled

Chorus Man loves woman sometimes

Mother loves child

Sometimes

I call my lady mama

So I can feel at home for a while

So I can feel at home for a while