I Am Because You Are (feat. Massy, Akotowaa & UZÉI) Video (MV)

I know I made you proud
You are life itself
Mama
Look at your girl now
You'll always be my home
No matter where I go
You lift me up
No matter how far

You lift me higher
You lift me higher
You lift me higher
You lift me higher

There are a million ways to write about the weight mothers carry
And there's a threshold after which truth turns to cliché
Formulas to reframe suffering as strength
But Mama, you live like you are free

Your love for me is not the type that threatens to fall apart
Like parchment of an ancient code of obligation
Desperately close to disintegration
You chose me
Your love is elastic
Could wrap around snap right back like nothing happened

Northern star
I am, because you are
Every image, every form
Makes me love you even more
Northern star
I am, because you are
Every image, every form
Makes me love you even more

You lift me higher
You lift me higher
You lift me higher
You lift me higher

There goes these speeches
There goes my heart
It's saying out loud
Screaming out loud
Mother, mother
Your love knows no bounds
Your strength, I am in awe of how much I want to love you
Want to hold you
Want to tell you you saved me

Northern star
I am, because you are
Every image, every form
Makes me love you even more
Northern star
I am, because you are
Every image, every form
Makes me love you even more

I am because you are
You rise and so I soar
I've lost sight of the floor
You never let me fall