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Madonna Lyrics for Song: Mother & Father
 Lyrics for Album: American Life
 
 
 
 20499>There was a time I was happy in my life
 There was a time I believed I'd live forever
 There was a time I prayed to Jesus Christ
 There was a time I had a mother
 It was nice
 
 Nobody else would ever take the place of you
 Nobody else could do the things that you could do
 No one else I guess could hurt me like you did
 I didn't understand, I was just a kid
 
 [Bridge:]
 
 Oh mother, why aren't you here with me
 No one else saw the things that you could see
 I'm trying hard to dry my tears
 Yes father, you know I'm not so free
 
 [Chorus:]
 
 I've got to give it up
 Find someone to love me
 I've got to let it go
 Find someone that I can care for
 I've got to give it up
 Find someone to love me
 I've got to let it go
 Find someone that I can care for
 
 There was a time I was happy in my life
 There was a time I believed I'd live forever
 There was a time I prayed to Jesus Christ
 There was a time I had a mother
 It was nice
 
 [bridge]
 [chorus]
 
 My mother died when I was five
 And all I did was sit and cry
 I cried and cried and cried all day
 Until the neighbors went away
 
 They couldn't take my loneliness
 I couldn't take their phoniness
 My father had to go to work
 I used to think he was a jerk
 
 I didn't know his heart was broken
 And not another word was spoken
 He became a shadow of
 The father I was dreaming of
 
 I made a vow that I would never need
 Another person ever
 Turned my heart into a cage
 A victim of a kind of rage
 
 I gotta give it up
 [repeat twice]
 
 [chorus]
 
 Find someone that I can care for
 Find someone that I can care for
 
 I've got to give it up
 [repeat five times]
 
 I've got to let it go
 I've got to give it up
 Oh mother, oh father
 I've got to give it up
 
 I gotta give it up
 [repeat six times]
 
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| Album Lyrics: American Life |  
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 "American Life"
 
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