Chords for Brandi Carlile - The Mother (Lyrics)

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_ _ _ Welcome to the end of being alone inside your mind.
[Db] You're tethered to another [Ab] and you worry it all the time.
You [Eb] always knew the melody but [Db] you never heard it [Bbm] right.
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[Ab] _ She's fair and she is quiet, Lord, she doesn't look like me.
She [Db] made me love the morning, [Ab] she's a holiday at sea.
The New [Eb] York streets are as [Ab] busy as [Db] they always used to [Bbm] be.
[Ab] But I am the mother of [Eb]
[Ab] Evangeline. _ _ _ _ _
_ The first things that she took from me were selfishness and sleep.
She [Db] broke a thousand heirlooms I [Ab] was never meant to keep.
[Eb] She filled my life with color, [Ab] cancelled [Dbm] plans and trashed my [Bbm] car.
[Ab] But none of that was ever who we are.
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_ _ [Ab] Outside of my windows are the mountains and the snow.
[Db] I'm lonely while you're sleeping and I [Ab] wish that I could go.
[Eb] All my rowdy friends are out [Db] accomplishing their [Bbm] dreams.
[Ab] But I am the mother of [Eb]
[Ab] Evangeline. _ _ _ _ _
And [Eb] they've still got their morning paper and [Db] their coffee and [Ab] their time.
And [Eb] they still enjoy their evenings with [Ab] the skeptics and the wine.
[C] Oh, but all the wonders I have seen [Db] I will [Ab] see a second [Bbm]
time.
_ [Ab] From inside of the ages through your [Eb] eyes.
_ _ [Ab] You are not an accident where no one fought it through.
[Db] The world that stood against us made us [Ab] mean to fight for you.
[Eb] When we chose your [Ab] name we knew that [Dbm] you'd fight [Ab] the power [Bbm] too.
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_ _ [Ab] You're nothing short of magical and beautiful to me.
[Db] I'll never hit the big time [Ab] without you. _ _
[Eb] So they can keep their treasure [Db] and their ties to [Bbm] the machine.
_ [Ab] Cause I am the mother [Eb] of [Fm] Evangeline. _ _
[Db] They can keep their treasure and their [Bbm] ties to the machine.
_ [Eb] _ [Bbm] Cause [Ab]
I am the mother of _ Evangeline.
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