A Mother's Tears

Hmm-mm

This house remembers better days

Laughter drifting through the holes

Now the silence knows my name

And echoes answer when I call

Your father packed his love in lies

Left one morning without goodbye

I stood alone beneath the sky

With only God to hear my cry

The nights were long, the road was cold

My heart was tired and growing old

But every tear that fell from me

Fell into heaven's hands

A mother's tears fall slow and deep

For promises we couldn't keep

For empty rooms and silent years

And love that never disappears

You may forget the road back home

But I'll still whisper through my prayers

That one day I'll hear you call me Mom again

Hmm-mm

They say a man must leave his home

Become one flesh beside his wife

I bless the love you chose that day

And prayed for happiness in your life

But months turned slowly into years

And still the phone don't ring for me

Sometimes I wonder if you know

Your mother waits silently

I don't blame love, I don't blame fate

A mother learns to stand and wait

Because the heart that raised a child never walks away

A mother's tears fall forth like rain

Through quiet nights and hidden pain

Through broken dreams and passing years

A mother's love outlives the tears

And if one day your heart remembers

The home where you began

You'll find these arms still open wide for you, my son

Maybe life just carried you too far

Maybe you forgot the sound of my voice

But a mother never forgets her child

Even when the world forgets her

Mmm, a mother's tears still fall tonight

But faith has turned my pain to light

Because the God who hears my prayers

Knows every sorrow that I bear

So if one day you walk back through that door and

Whisper like you did it years before, "Mom"

You'll find my heart still waiting here

Through all these mother's tears