You Mama You - Jude Verse ( ) When I was young and pushed around And beaten up and beaten down Who'd I run to mama tell me who Verse ( ) And as I grew to be a man And all the world held such élan I did what I thought I just had to do Chorus ( / ): It was you mama you, it was you all along It was you I ran away from I was wrong And if I could I'd change my life I swear to god I'd cut it out with a knife And with a glue stick I'd reapply it in a song Verse ( ) And laid back kerouac never no a heart attack Drinking and thinking about the place that he ran back to The moloch is an old man the moloch is a love-lack Bending for a quick snack remembering his friend jack And mama sometimes i remember you Chorus ( / ): Bridge ( / ) Man loves woman Mother loves child Sometimes I call my lady mama So I can feel at home for a while So I can feel at home for a while Verse ( ) Looking around at all the mellencamp towns The excuses and the nooses where the coffee grounds I found places and traces of a storybook world And i went out there for a ride On the misty coast but the holy host Is under mickey d's american flag and it's unfurled Chorus ( / ) & Bridge ( / )