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You keep stopping when you could be walking,
Looking at the pictures on the wall.
You keep quiet when you should be talking.
You just don't make any sense at all.
Remember when you were much younger,
And you were lying in your bed
Among the satin sheets and pillows,
Your mother there to ease your head.
Mama, Mama, I keep having nightmares.
Mama, Mama, Mama, am I ill?
Mama, Mama, Mama, hold me tightly.
Mama, Mama, do you love me still?
But now it's diff'rent you are older.
There's no one here to hold you hand.
Your Mama's gone beyond the veil, Joan.
There's no one left who understands.
Mama, Mama, I keep having nightmares.
Mama, Mama, Mama, am I ill?
Mama, Mama, Mama, hold me, hold me tighter.
Mama, Mama, do you love me still?
Do you love me?
Do you love me?
So you're left standing in the corner.
You keep your face turned to the wall.
A fading dream, a fading mem'ry,
A shooting star that had to fall.
Mama, Mama, I keep having nightmares.
Mama, Mama, Mama, am I ill?
Mama, Mama, Mama, hold me, hold me tighter.
Mama, Mama, do you love me still?
Do you love me?
Mama, Mama, do you love me still?
Do you love me?
Mama, Mama, do you love me still?
Do you love me?
Mama?
Looking at the pictures on the wall.
You keep quiet when you should be talking.
You just don't make any sense at all.
And you were lying in your bed
Among the satin sheets and pillows,
Your mother there to ease your head.
Mama, Mama, Mama, am I ill?
Mama, Mama, Mama, hold me tightly.
Mama, Mama, do you love me still?
There's no one here to hold you hand.
Your Mama's gone beyond the veil, Joan.
There's no one left who understands.
Mama, Mama, Mama, am I ill?
Mama, Mama, Mama, hold me, hold me tighter.
Mama, Mama, do you love me still?
Do you love me?
You keep your face turned to the wall.
A fading dream, a fading mem'ry,
A shooting star that had to fall.
Mama, Mama, Mama, am I ill?
Mama, Mama, Mama, hold me, hold me tighter.
Mama, Mama, do you love me still?
Do you love me?
Mama, Mama, do you love me still?
Do you love me?
Mama, Mama, do you love me still?
Do you love me?
Mama?
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If I had to choose the heartrending tune of the 80s, with the permission of Mad World, that would be the one, why? The dark and the introspective mythical 80s atmosphere created (F.O.S pure style) and the lyrics: it's very hard to remind your childhood when you are lost, alienated, undefended before the cold of this world when all your dreams are gone; but be happy to hear this melody, this is art, I get depressed when I listen to current shit pop music, and the video couldn't go with this song better!
I've read somewhere that Mike has said in an interview this was inspired by the movie that was based on the book Mommie Dearest. If you don't know it, it's about an actrice who wanted to have children but had seven miscarriages. So she and her then partner adopt children, who she ends up abusing through her visions of discipline. When her contract with the film studio gets terminated, she in a fit of rage destroys her garden. She also writes the adopted children out of her will in the end.
The song seems to contain a lot of elements from this. The whole 'you keep quiet when you should be talking' verse for example shows this sense of misplaced discipline and the fear in the children of their new mother. As the child in this song gets older, any form of comfort it has gets dismantled and it essentially shows the betrayal of trust it had towards its mother. Hence the way the chorus in the outro gets shorter and shorter, just ending in a simple pleading 'Mama?'
Heartbreaking.
this is a damn good song, and you're a cock for ruining it.
Fuck dude, why did I have to be born in this generation of Bruno Mars and all the gay pop shit that's played on the radio?...
im sorry for cussing
i dont give a fuck about this band i just like seeing my name on the web. im famous