You’re my hood, my motherhood That I wear above all else You’re my oldest guilt, my wall, my source My greatest weakness and my force You will never cease to be My superior directory Someone upon whom it all depends My mother and my most peculiar friend And I’ll give it all back to you I’ll give it all back to you All your unconditional love I’ll give it all back to you I love you in the deepest way And I see your good and bad The girlish smile you still possess Your smartness and your passionate ways At times like someone strange to me And yet my oldest memory Someone upon whom it all depends My mother and my most peculiar friend The way you stay the way you are Gives me a home A home for my soul