My mother warned me love would knock me out
She liked it to a hammer on the soul

When I asked her why
With a smile in her eyes
She said "When you know you know"
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When I was seventeen I went to Rome
I searched the ruins and the catacombs
The beauty took my breath, but I've got to admit
Not my mother's hammer
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I loved a man who never loved himself
I left him, then I drank myself to hell
I woke up with a stranger
In a mansion by the sea
Not my mothers hammer
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Years later, I stood up and dusted off

It took a while to nurse me back to health
Harnessing the power, a king in her new tower
Still not my mother's hammer
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My friend decided she would take her life
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She spent her days here suffering in pain
Her daughters left alone
They etched her name in stone
Losing faith in mother's hammer
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The day she died you came to my friend door
Bearing all the comforts I adore

You sat with me in bed
And that's moment when
I first felt mother's hammer
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I felt it echo through my bloody bones
I felt it flood the spaces in between
I felt you take my jaw
And kiss my lips so raw
I felt my mother's hammer hitting me
My mother warned love would knock me out
She liked it to a hammer on the soul

The children in me fight
God damn she's always right
I found my mother's hammer