Mama You Sweet
Ocean of Emotions: Lucinda Williams' Poetic Tribute to Unspoken Pain
Lyrics
I love you, Mama you sweet
Expressing love and sweetness towards the mother, possibly emphasizing the repetition for emphasis and emotional connection.
I love you, Mama you sweet
-I love you, Mama you sweet
-I love you, Mama you sweet
-I love you, Mama you sweet
-With an ocean in my spirit
Describing inner struggles and hardships symbolically using an ocean in the spirit, cracks on the lips, scars in the heart, and a burden on the hips.
And cracks on my lips
-And scars in my heart
-And this burden on my hips
-Ocean becomes heavy and tries
The weight of emotional pain (ocean) tries to emerge through the eyes and mouth, connecting with memories and feelings.
To push its way out
-Through these ancient eyes
-And the memories in my mouth
-Ocean becomes tears
The emotional pain transforms into tears that flow over the lines in the face, representing the visible effects of suffering and pain in the soul.
That ebb and flow
-Over the lines in my face
-And the pain in my soul
-And pain hits a wall
Describing the confusion and directionless nature of pain, with the ocean expressing its emotional state and instructing pain to follow.
And doesn't know which way to go
-And ocean says I'm crying now
-And tells pain to follow
-And pain courses through
Pain spreads through the entire body, attempting to find an escape and navigate through the secrets held within the skin.
Every vein, every limb
-Trying to find a way out
-Between the secrets in my skin
-And secrets hold on
Secrets persist until they surrender, meeting the ocean and transforming into tears once again.
Until they finally give in
-And they meet up with ocean
-And tears again
-And tears hand me a shovel
Tears metaphorically provide a tool (shovel) to break through the surface that binds earthly existence, where trust is buried.
Saying break beneath the crust
-That binds earthly skin
-And buries all the trust
-Somehow trust was caught
Trust is entangled with hardships, found among cracks, scars, and burdens, reflecting the complexity of relationships and emotional struggles.
Between the cracks on my lips
-And the scars in my heart
-And this burden on my hips
-I love you, Mama you sweet...
Reiterating love for the mother amidst the emotional turmoil expressed in the preceding lines.
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