[ti:Mother And Father] [ar:Madonna] [al:American Life] [offset:500] [00:00.00]Madonna - Mother And Father [00:12.51]Lyrics:Madonna/Mirwais Ahmadzai [00:14.51]Music:Madonna/Mirwais Ahmadzai [00:16.51] [00:18.51]There was a time I was happy in my life [00:22.98]There was a time I believed I'd live forever [00:27.45]There was a time that I prayed to Jesus Christ [00:31.96]There was a time I had a mother [00:34.56]It was nice [00:36.37] [00:45.62]Nobody else would ever take the place of you [00:50.31]Nobody else could do the things that you could do [00:54.70]No one else I guess could hurt me like you did [00:59.24]I didn't understand, I was just a kid [01:03.30] [01:03.81]Oh mother, why aren't you here with me [01:07.98]No one else saw the things that you could see [01:12.75]I'm trying hard to dry my tears [01:16.86]Yes father, you know I'm not so free [01:21.35]I've got to give it up [01:23.42]Find someone to love me [01:25.87]I've got to let it go [01:28.00]Find someone that I can care for [01:30.08]I've got to give it up [01:32.46]Find someone to love me [01:34.79]I've got to let it go [01:36.98]Find someone that I can care for [01:39.23] [01:48.63]There was a time I was happy in my life [01:53.14]There was a time I believed I'd live forever [01:57.73]There was a time that I prayed to Jesus Christ [02:02.22]There was a time I had a mother [02:04.63]It was nice [02:06.38] [02:06.88]Oh mother, why aren't you here with me [02:10.78]No one else saw the things that you could see [02:15.73]I'm trying hard to dry my tears [02:19.96]Yes father, you know I'm not so free [02:24.36]I've got to give it up [02:26.48]Find someone to love me [02:28.82]I've got to let it go [02:31.01]Find someone that I can care for [02:33.22]I've got to give it up [02:35.54]Find someone to love me [02:37.81]I've got to let it go [02:40.08]Find someone that I can care for [02:42.43]My mother died when I was five [02:44.58]And all I did was sit and cry [02:46.80]I cried and cried and cried all day [02:49.02]Until the neighbors went away [02:51.27]They couldn't take my loneliness [02:52.59]I couldn't take their phoniness [02:55.92]My father had to go to work [02:56.97]I used to think he was a jerk [02:58.34] [03:00.26]I didn't know his heart was broken [03:02.63]And not another word was spoken [03:04.85]He became a shadow of [03:07.02]The father I was dreaming of [03:09.26]I made a vow that I would never need [03:11.01]Another person ever [03:11.67]Turned my heart into a cage [03:12.72]A victim of a kind of rage [03:14.61] [03:20.65][03:18.42][03:16.22]I gotta give it up [03:22.88]I've got to give it up [03:25.07]Find someone to love me [03:27.40]I've got to let it go [03:29.62]Find someone that I can care for [03:31.82]I've got to give it up [03:34.13]Find someone to love me [03:36.35]I've got to let it go [03:38.66]Find someone that I can care for [03:40.94]Find someone that I can care for [03:43.05]Find someone that I can care for [03:52.31][03:50.58][03:48.95][03:47.34][03:45.45]I've got to give it up [03:54.37] [03:58.91]I've got to let it go [04:01.23]I've got to give it up [04:03.43]Oh mother, oh father [04:07.96]I've got to give it up [04:13.65] [04:28.24][04:25.96][04:23.69][04:21.46][04:19.19][04:16.94]I gotta give it up [04:30.24] [04:30.94] [04:31.63]END