The Me That Was Your Son by Poi Dog Pondering Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Mamma, you have been dead now for six years
And in the years since then I have grown to know my father
And this makes me happy

[Verse 2]
Mamma, do you know that you two are so different?
And I wish I remembered the two of you together
But all I have are photos of them
And they tell me a lot, but only in the way
A smell reminds you of a time long gone

[Chorus]
Yeah mamma
Gonna go to heaven mamma
Hey hey hey mamma

[Verse 3]
Mamma, when I'm in my memory of you
I meet again the me that was your son
Mamma, oh yeah, he is a stranger but so are you
[Chorus]
And this makes me sad, my friends don't know the you then
Nor have they ever met the me that was your son
And this makes me sad, my friends don't know the you then
Nor have they ever met the me that was your son
Yeah mamma
Gonna go to heaven mamma
Hey hey hey mamma

[Verse 4]
But Mamma, one cannot live in the past
Every day brings new decisions
New sadness and new joy
New sadness and new joy
New sadness and new joy
New sadness and new joy

[Chorus]
This makes me sad, my friends don't know the you then
Nor have they ever met the me that was your son
And this makes me sad, my friends don't know the you then
Nor have they ever met the me that was your son
Yeah
Gonna go to heaven mamma
Huh?