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