Call You - Mr. J. Medeiros

Seventy hours a week

It amazes me the power in her feet

With no sleep she raised me

A cocktail waitress with three babies

Who will not fail in a race to try and save me

From humiliation pain and heartache

And still I don’t hesitate to learn it the hard way

She knows she can’t control that

But I love her every effort

It just shows where her souls at

And I know that she hated our poverty

And the clothes donated by the Salvation Army

Honestly I stare at her honorably

She’s more then a mom to me

Whole-heartedly I say that

Knowing there is no pay back

For those who are constantly giving

I just pray that she knows that I care and love her

I see the cross she bares

As she walks through the struggle

And still she remains humble in uncertainty

As her life changed with two major brain surgeries

And an insurance agency she gotta argue with

To get the medicine she needs inside her arteries

And though it’s hard for me

To understand just how she does it

I know I’m a better man because of it

So many cracks that us people can fall through

Yet the love of your mother still calls you

Father is an ex-marine

And for my moms I know he’d drop everything

Reading psalms he’d stop and try to tell me things

He knew I wouldn’t understand

Until I got inside the hell of things

And the bell would ring and I would go rounds

Fighting on a similar road he had to go down

Without him I’d have no sound no soul

And definitely no rock and roll

Regardless of the copies I sold he still backs me

Reaching for that level as the devil keeps attacking me

Is this how it has to be

Well if it happens to you then it happens to me

He said that’s the meaning of family

Form a team of the people you love understand me

He always knew that there was more to me

Supporting me

Reassuring me to be proud of being Portuguese

And though I’m sure that he

Don’t understand just how I love him

The conversation we had and how I learned from them

Contemplating with dad on how the worlds turning

Concentrating on the good

When the bad is hurting someone

I heard from someone

We are the light that shines through

And it helps to know your family is right behind you

So many cracks that us people can fall through

Yet the love of your father still calls you