[Intro] You said you’d never be Anything like her But I see the same small tremor When you’re holding back your words [Verse 1] You line up all your coffee cups In a perfect little row Laugh too loud at nothing When you don’t wanna let it show You scrub the sink at midnight Like you’re rinsing off the day Say it’s just a habit Then you turn your face away [Chorus] You’re just like your mother When you’re trying not to cry Same tight jaw Same glassy eyes You swear you’re different But I see through the cover When you’re scared of being left You’re just like your mother [Verse 2] You fold your Sunday dresses Though you never go to church Keep the tags on half your clothes Like you’re saving up some worth You apologize for breathing When the room is getting loud Standing on the edge Of every picture with a crowd [Chorus] You’re just like your mother When you’re trying not to cry Same tight jaw Same glassy eyes You swear you’re different But I see through the cover When you’re scared of being left You’re just like your mother [Verse 3] She calls you in the evening You rehearse what you will say Practice sounding casual Then you throw the script away You tell her that you’re happy But your fingers tap the chair Counting every silence Like you’re running out of air [Chorus] You’re just like your mother When you’re trying not to cry Same tight jaw Same glassy eyes You swear you’re different But I see through the cover When you’re scared of being left You’re just like your mother [Verse 4] You say you hate her stories How she stayed when she should run How she packed her pain in boxes Labeled “Later” One by one But you keep old text messages Like letters in a drawer Reading every line Till you don’t know anymore [Chorus] You’re just like your mother When you’re trying not to cry Same tight jaw Same glassy eyes You swear you’re different But I see through the cover When you’re scared of being left You’re just like your mother [Verse 5] One day you let it hit you In the mirror In the light See a little girl and woman Standing Sharing the same sight You touch the mark upon your cheek You got from her at birth And finally say her first name Like it also means your worth [Chorus] You’re just like your mother When you’re trying not to cry Same tight jaw Same glassy eyes But maybe different Doesn’t mean you’ve got to sever All the love you learned from her You’re just like your mother [Bridge] What if all the things you’re running from Are the things that kept you warm What if all the ways you think you’re weak Are the shape of how you’re strong If I hold your shaking hands Will you let the mirror blur Could you love yourself a little Like you almost loved her [Chorus] You’re just like your mother When you’re laughing in the rain Same bright spark Through all that pain You’re not a copy You’re a chorus made of others But the soft part of your heart That’s her (you’re just like your mother)
