Only Mama Knows

Album: Memory Almost Full (2007)
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  • Well, I was found in the transit lounge
    Of a dirty airport town
    What was I doing on the road to ruin?
    Well, my mama laid me down
    My mama laid me down

    Around my hand was a plastic band
    With a picture of my face
    I was crying, left to die
    In this godforsaken place
    This godforsaken place

    Only Mama knows
    Why she laid me down in this godforsaken town
    She was running too
    What she was running from, I always wondered
    I never knew
    Only Mama knows
    Only Mama knows

    I'm passing through, I'm on my way
    On the road, no ETA
    I'm passing through, no fixed abode
    And that is why I need to try
    To hold on
    I've gotta hold on
    I've got to hold on

    Was it planned as a one night stand
    Or did she leave in disgrace?
    Well, I never, will I ever see my father's face?
    See my father's face?

    Only Mama knows
    Why she laid me down in this godforsaken town
    She was running too
    What she was running from, I always wondered
    I never knew
    Only Mama knows
    Only Mama knows

    Only Mama knows (Only Mama knows)
    Why she laid me down in this godforsaken town
    She was running too (Only Mama knows)
    What she was running from, I always wondered
    I never knew
    Only Mama knows (Only Mama knows)
    Only Mama knows (Only Mama knows)

    (Only Mama knows)
    (Only Mama knows)

    I've got to hold on (Only Mama knows)
    I've got to hold on (Only Mama knows)
    You gotta hold on Writer/s: PAUL MCCARTNEY
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Joe from Hoboken, NjI wonder if Paul consciously or subconsciously wrote this song thinking of John Lennon.
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