You Mama You ************ When I was young and pushed around And beaten up and beaten down Who'd I run to mama tell me who And as I grew to be a man And all the world held such elan I did what I thought I just had to do It was you mama you, it was you all along It was you I ran away from I was wrong And if I could I'd change my life I swear to God I'd cut it out with a knife And with a glue stick I'd reapply it in a song And laid back Kerouac never no a heart attack Drinking and thinking about the place he ran back to The moloch is an old man the moloch is a love-lack Bending for a quick snack remembering his friend Jack And mama sometimes I remember you It was you mama you, it was you all along It was you I ran away from I was wrong And if I could I'd change my life I swear to God I'd cut it out with a knife And with a glue stick I'd reapply it in a song Man loves woman Mother loves child Sometimes I call my lady mama So I can feel at home for a while So I can feel at home for a while Looking around at all the Mellencamp towns The excuses and the nooses where the coffee grounds I found places and traces of a storybook world And I went out there for a ride On the misty coast but the holy host Is under Mickey D's American flag and it's unfurled It was you mama you, it was you all along It was you I ran away from I was wrong And if I could I'd change my life I swear to God I'd cut it out with a knife And with a glue stick I'd reapply it in a song Man loves woman sometimes Mother loves child Sometimes I call my lady Mama So I can feel at home for a while So I can feel at home for a while