I Will Be There With You

Lyrics

Our daughters took their mother's word What they learned was what she'd heard Voices buried deep inside They never knew how much she tried To blame me for her years of pain Her father's sickness and disdain All the love she was denied She never knew her mother's side You must be who you are You will find your way through Though you still fear the dark Let love come to you You can trust in yourself And love yourself true I will be with you I will be with you My mother gave her love away Like coupons on a shopping day Like a gambler with her wealth She left nothing for herself I did not want my mother's life The loyal and resentful wife When the call came that she'd died I heard my mother's voice inside You must be who you are You will find your way through Though you still fear the dark Let love come to you You can trust in yourself And love yourself true I will be with you I will be with you I left my daughter's' family At 40 life was killing me My mother died and showed me how I could not be my mother now I owed us both a second chance To love myself enough to dance Past the ghosts of both our pasts And lead the way to love at last