After we said goodbye
You drove me to my flight
Away from home
Never felt so alone
I watched you cry
Bittersweet but I
Know that I'll see you
Again when school's done
One day I hope to be
The mother you were for me
Now I can see
The ways you showed you loved me
I wanna be
Like you
As I walk down the aisle
I see you sit and smile
At me in a white dress
With a ring as I say yes
Soon we've bought a house
And try to settle down
I live on my own now
It's strange but I'm grown now
One day I hope to be
The mother you were for me
Now I can see
The ways you showed you loved me
I wanna be
Like you
A baby's cry
Staying up all night
Like you did for me
I didn't know how hard this could be
Now she's turning 5
Right before my eyes
It seems that life
Has a way of passing you by
And I know how hard I try
It would take the rest of my life
To be
The half of the woman you seem because
One day I hope to be
The mother you were for me
Now I can see
The ways you showed you loved me
I wanna be
Like you