A Mother Like You

“Bent Low”

VERSE 1

If you were my mom

I think I’d grow like wildflowers

Safe enough to reach for sunlight

Strong enough to survive hard hours

You hold our babies

Like the whole world could break them

Like love ain’t loud

It’s patient hands that keep shaping

Late nights awake in the blue glow

Early mornings moving slow slow

You pour from places

Nobody sees

And somehow still

You got more for me

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PRE-CHORUS

You make grace look ordinary

Like heaven lives in little things

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CHORUS

Every gentle thing in me

Started somewhere in your hands

You water souls

While your own roots thirst

And still somehow you stand

If our children grow tall someday

If they learn what real love is

It’ll be because

Somebody bent low first

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VERSE 2

You kiss scraped knees

Like they ain’t nothing

Carry bad dreams

Like they weigh something

And I watch you

Move through the chaos softly

Turning a house into a memory

Some roots grow deep in warm light

Some through storms nobody talks about

Some blooms open slow over time

Still carrying the fingerprints that raised them

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PRE-CHORUS

You make sacrifice look holy

Without ever asking to be seen

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CHORUS

Every gentle thing in me

Started somewhere in your hands

You water souls

While your own roots thirst

And still somehow you stand

If our children grow tall someday

If they learn what real love is

It’ll be because

Somebody bent low first

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BRIDGE

And years from now

When they speak your name

I hope they feel

What I feel today

That love looks less like fireworks

More like staying anyway

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FINAL CHORUS

Every beautiful thing in this house

Has your fingerprints on it

The laughter

The safety

The way our children love

You planted all of it

If I stand taller now

It’s because you showed me how

Somebody bent low first

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