Mama’s always feeling

Happens when I come home

But more when I’m leaving

Her and her sisters were left

Fatherless

The man didn’t care that he was stealing

Healing don’t come easy these days

Light up another, you can’t change the color back

You reckon that someone cares, but no one asked

I learned the world through my mother’s eyes

And she fears abandonment

At least sometimes

Well, my father can’t unsee

The ghost of a man that he swore he’d never be

All these years, and still he fears

He ain’t different though he’s tried

How the hell can he not tell

That ain’t even crossed my mind?

Light up another, you can’t change the color back

Try to prove your place like you could make it last

Unworthiness inherited

And gone-too-soon confidence

I point the finger, sure feels better that way

I keep on running from the blood that’s in my veins

I see it all a different way

Jacob was a deceiver

And he gave me my name