MY BABY (MAMA’S VERSION) [Intro] (Soft) (Ooh…) (Yeah…) You never knew… (hmm…) You saved me… (ooh…) ⸻ [Verse 1] Sixteen years old with the weight of the world… (yeah…) Trying to protect my tiny little girl… (my girl…) Four walls closed in, every door was locked… (hmm…) Living with a monster, praying time would stop… (ooh…) I forgot what hope was… (hope was…) Forgot what light could be… (yeah…) Until two little eyes looked up… (ooh…) And somehow found the pieces left in me… (hmm…) ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] You wrapped your fingers around mine… (around mine…) Without saying a single word… (yeah…) Somehow your heartbeat… (heartbeat…) Was louder than all the fear I’d ever heard… (ooh…) ⸻ [Chorus] My baby… (my baby…) You brought the sunrise into endless rain… (yeah…) You found a heart I thought was gone forever… (forever…) And taught it how to beat again… (ooh…) My baby… (my baby…) You never knew the battles that I’d fight… (hmm…) But every smile upon your face… (your face…) Gave me one more reason to survive the night… (yeah…) ⸻ [Verse 2] Six months passed… (six months…) And something finally changed… (changed…) The fear inside my chest… (hmm…) Couldn’t keep us there another day… (ooh…) I picked you up and ran… (I ran…) With shaking hands and tired feet… (yeah…) I’d rather face the whole world… (whole world…) Than let you grow where love couldn’t breathe… (ooh…) Every step away… (away…) Was a step toward the life you deserved… (yeah…) Every mile between us… (between us…) Was proof that I could finally be heard… (hmm…) ⸻ [Bridge] Now you’re laughing with your baby sister… (ooh…) Best friends without a care… (yeah…) You’ll never know the nights I cried… (hmm…) Or every whispered desperate prayer… (oh…) You’ll never know the strength you gave… (you gave…) Before you learned to say my name… (my name…) You saved your mama… (yeah…) Long before you even knew my pain… (ooh…) ⸻ [Final Chorus] My baby… (my baby…) Look at the beautiful soul you’ve become… (yeah…) Every dream I ever wished for… (ooh…) Is shining in the light you’ve become… (hmm…) My baby… (my baby…) If you ever wonder where my courage came from… (where…) It wasn’t found inside of me… (no…) It started beating with your tiny heart… (ooh…) And every day since then… (yeah…) You’ve been leading me home… ⸻ [Outro] (Soft piano) You’ll grow up knowing love… (love…) Not fear… (hmm…) Because the day I chose you… (ooh…) Was the day… I finally chose life… (yeah…) My baby…
