[ti:Mother and Father] [ar:Madonna] [al:American Life] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.54]Artist:madonna [00:03.72]Songs Title:mother and father [00:18.78]There was a time I was happy in my life [00:23.22]There was time I believed I'd live forever [00:27.60]There was a time that I prayed to Jesus Christ [00:32.09]There was a time I had a mother it was nice [00:46.03]Nobody else would ever take the place of you [00:50.41]Nobody else could do the things that you could do [00:55.16]No one else I guess could hurt me like you did [00:59.47]I didn't understand I was just a kid [01:02.66]Oh mother why aren't you here with me [01:08.10]No one else saw the things that you could see [01:13.16]I'm trying hard to dry my tears [01:17.17]Yes father you know I'm not so free [01:22.05]I got to give it up [01:23.80]Find someone to love me [01:25.99]I got to let it go [01:28.30]Find someone that I can care for [01:30.99]I got to give it up [01:32.92]Find someone to love me [01:35.42]I got to let it go [01:37.49]Find someone that I can care for [01:49.31]There was a time I was happy in my life [01:53.75]There was time I believed I'd live forever [01:58.31]There was a time that I prayed to Jesus Christ [02:02.81]There was a time I had a mother it was nice [02:07.50]Oh mother why aren't you here with me [02:11.63]No one else saw the things that you could see [02:16.63]I'm trying hard to dry my tears [02:20.44]Yes father you know I'm not so free [02:25.38]I got to give it up [02:27.25]Find someone to love me [02:29.63]I got to let it go [02:31.88]Find someone that I can care for [02:34.00]I got to give it up [02:36.25]Find someone to love me [02:38.62]I got to let it go [02:40.81]Find someone that I can care for [02:43.00]My mother died when I was five [02:45.75]And all I did was sit and cry [02:47.32]I cried and cried and cried all day [02:50.25]Until the neighbours went away [02:52.08]They couldn't take my loneliness [02:53.64]I couldn't take their phoniness [02:56.97]My father had to go to work [02:58.29]I used to think he was a jerk [03:01.29]I didn't know his heart was broken [03:03.49]And not another word was spoken [03:05.74]He became a shadow of [03:07.68]The father I was dreaming of [03:10.30]I made a vow that I would never need another person ever [03:12.55]Turned my heart into a cage a victim of a kind of rage [03:22.05]I gotta give it up [03:23.99]I gotta give it up [03:26.22]I've got to give it up [03:27.72]Find someone to love me [03:29.41]I've got to let it go [03:30.85]Find someone that I can care for [03:32.97]I got to give it up [03:35.16]Find someone to love me [03:37.72]I got to let it go [03:39.66]Find someone that I can care for [03:42.10]Find someone that I can care for [03:44.47]Find someone that I can care for [03:46.79]I got to give it up [03:48.47]I got to give it up [03:49.97]I got to give it up [03:51.35]I got to give it up [03:53.29]I got to give it up [03:54.91]I got to give it up [04:00.85]I got to let it go [04:02.29]I got to give it up [04:04.91]Oh mother [04:06.85]Oh father [04:09.10]I gotta give it up [04:18.79]I gotta give it up [04:20.53]I gotta give it up [04:22.73]I gotta give it up [04:24.85]I gotta give it up [04:27.16]I gotta give it up [04:29.35]I gotta give it up