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Blue Collar Mama

from HAZARD LIGHTS (Full Album) by Odist Abettor

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She’s a blue collar mama workin the factory line/ Taking on extra shifts with good work hard to find/ Got mouths to feed and check to check, bills bleed her out/ If she can’t make rent they’ll be on the street this time, no doubt/ All alone raisin’ kids, she does the best that she can/ Don’t need any hand outs from any hook-up, look-down man/ She’s tryin to save up, pave their way up to a better end/ maybe it’s somewhere around the bend, we’ll see, ‘cause she’s...

A blue collar mama raised just down the block
With big dreams and big bones and A+ thoughts
And two little boys in a room too small
Gramma taught her, ya’ll stand up tall against the wall

Workin’ to make a home and a life and dream/ PTA, double shifts, hand-me-downs and the screams/ and the shots - on the block, tryin’ to get out this neighborhood for good/ But her way is blocked/ by a check - that’s half what the men get for the same work, but it’s not shame work/ She holds her head high even when it’s covered with sweat and dirt ‘cause she knows/ what the scars on her skin and the stains on her clothes show/ she’ll do whatever she has to for the ones she loves back at home [1c]

A blue collar mama with the city on her shoulders
Not getting any younger, always feelin too much older
Takin it day by day, but she’ll always find a way
Holds her babies in her arms, sayin’ it’s all gonna be okay, be okay

She’s a blue collar mama with a pink-slip in hand/ Company demands, yknow, i’m sure you understand ma’am/ She’s thinkin of drinkin’ but instead she heads on home/ Sittin on the red line, readin the headlines all alone/ All she wants is to be someone her kids can look up to/ That night her son says, “I wanna grow up to be just like you/ ‘Cause you’re my blue collar mama raised just down the block/ I like when we play at the park and when we go on long walks/ I know you’re workin’ hard for me and my little brother/ You’re my mama, I love you, and I wouldn’t want any other”

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from HAZARD LIGHTS (Full Album), released May 23, 2014
Written, Performed, and Produced by Odist Abettor

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