Fingerprints

“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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