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

Hook
'Cause I'm woman
And I'm mother
Oh I'm a ship inside a bottle
Till 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 why? What's in a when?
What's it to live once you've survived?

I've never known
Where others begin and I end
But its 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 too
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

Till the levee breaks
Till the levee breaks
Till the levee breaks
Till the levee breaks

Stuck in the middle of
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

It's not what I was made to do
But believe me, I still care