“Fingerprints”
Mama…
How you did it, I still don’t know
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VERSE 1
How you teach love
Without nobody teaching you?
How you make warmth
When the whole world freezing you?
Young woman
Broken home
Still somehow kept us going strong
Bills due
Stress high
But you never let it hit my eyes
I remember ramen on the stove
You making jokes like we was good though
Probably cried after I went to sleep
But all I ever felt was safety
That’s crazy
You gave your whole life
To a boy you barely knew yet
World cold
But somehow you ain’t let me grow numb to it
You pulled us out a house
But deeper than that
You built a home
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HOOK
And now I’m grown
I finally see
Your fingerprints all over me
The way I love
The way I stay
The way I carry pain
You was mother
You was father
You somehow pushed us farther
And your tears
Your fear
You never let ‘em land on me
Mama
Your fingerprints all over me
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VERSE 2
Back then
I ain’t understand pressure
Now I got kids
And I see your sacrifice different
You carried weight
You was exhausted
But still made every birthday magic
Still showed up
Still hugged hard
Still made a little feel big
And what hit me lately
Is nobody did that for you
You built softness
With bare hands
After life handed you sharp edges
Most people pass pain down
You broke that chain somehow
That’s strength
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HOOK
And now I’m grown
I finally see
Your fingerprints all over me
The way I love
The way I stay
The way I carry pain
You was mother
You was father
You somehow pushed us farther
And your tears
Your fear
You never let ‘em land on me
Mama
Your fingerprints all over me
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OUTRO
If there’s anything good in me
Anything gentle
Anything that knows how to love
It came from you
You built a home
Before you ever had one yourself
Mama…
I see it now
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