I Hold Your Anger
I don’t know if I’d be a good mother
I dreamt that you cut off your arm
And I blame myself, I should have told you to be careful
I don’t want to be the one
To tell you that it won’t grow back
I don’t want to see you cry
When your gods come crashing down
I hold your sorrows, hold your fears
Hold your anger in my tears
Nobody asked me to
But that is what I’m meant to do
‘Cause I’m woman
And I’m mother
Oh, I’m a ship inside a bottle
‘Til the levee breaks
I don’t want to break
Standing where the hills meet the sea
I’m not sure whose knife I carry
What’s in a when? What’s in a why?
What’s it to live once you’ve survived?
I’ve never known
Where others begin and I end
But it's always you before me
Until the gods come crashing down
I hold your sorrows, hold your fears
Hold your anger in my tears
Nobody asked me to
But that is what I’m meant to do
‘Cause I’m woman
And I’m mother
Oh, I’m a ship inside a bottle
'Til the levee breaks
'Til the levee breaks
'Til the levee breaks
'Til the levee breaks
Stuck in the middle, facing my grave
I glance behind at the woman in a cage
Nobody asked me to
It’s not what I was made to do
Nobody asked me to
It’s not what I was made to do
But believe me, I still care
