I Think I'm A Mother Lyrics

Lyric discussion by that_sullen_girl 

Cover art for I Think I'm A Mother lyrics by PJ Harvey

to me, she's saying that she adores somebody, but she feels like she's their mother? ''you think i'll come over'' who knows.

You know, that makes much more sense to me than any child/baby theory that I've heard and, combined with the quote* from Polly that megique added, I think that this song is about wanting protection/security and not getting it from her lover. She doesn't want to be their mother. She still needs mothering herself.

*I couldn't find a source for that quote... doesn't mean it's not real but all I could turn up was that it might be from an article in Alternative Press from June 1995.