Mama Don't Understand - Ambrosia, Alan Parsons

My mama don’t understand

She’s impossible to the core

Now she says that she’s gettin' married

He’s a friend of a friend of the boy next door

He’s got all of the best intentions

Half of a school degree

But when he does his song and dancin'

They know they can be happy as the shows on TV

She needs a change, she wants a life

Where she can grow and they can thrive

Some kind of space of her own

A different view

Another slant

Another way

Another chance

To get on with her life

(Mama she don’t understand)

Mama she don’t

She don’t even know

She don’t know

She don’t understand

She’s gotta know

If she can cut life on her own

But like the man says,

«You can never go home again»

You gotta come see the new place

Mom, you’re gonna feel right at home

Could you just front that deposit

Mama, we’ll pay you back when the welfare check comes

Nothin’s gone as expected

No one knows all the trouble we’ve seen

But we’ll pull ourselves together

It’s the two of us now

Of course, baby makes three

A little luck

An even break

We’ll find a way

To have our cake

And even eat a piece or two

We’ll show you how

We’re winnin' now

We’ll live it up Can’t keep 'em down

Woh-wa-no-no-no-no

Woh-wa-no-no-no-no

Woh-wa-no-no-no-no

Woh-wa-no-no-no-no

She don’t understand me She don’t understand me So mama, please understand

(Mama, please understand)

If it’s possible, we implore

Could we just move in these few things

We won’t get in the way

And we’ll sleep on the floor

Cuz, times have been getting tougher

(Times have been getting tough)

It’s an unfriendly world outside

They say things will pick up by summer

Can we borrow the car

Will you watch little Clyde,

Thanks a lot

Woh-wa-no-no-no-no

Mama don’t understand

Woh-wa-no-no-no-no

Mama don’t understand me Woo-wa-doo

Woo-wa-doo-ooo

Woh-wa-no-no-no-no

Mama don’t understand

Woh-wa-no-no-no-no

Mama don’t understand me

(Mama don’t understand me)

Woo-wa-doo

Woo-wa-doo-ooo

(Mama don’t understand me, no)

Woh-wa-no-no-no-no

Mama don’t understand

Woh-wa-no-no-no-no

She don’t understand me

(Mama don’t understand me)

Woo-wa-doo

Woo-wa-doo-ooo

(Mama, she don’t understand me, yeah)