I Wish I Was Your Mother-Mott The Hoople

[ti:I Wish I Was Your Mother] [ar:Mott The Hoople] [al:The Ballad Of Mott: A Retrospe] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.06]I Wish I Was Your Mother - Mott The Hoople [00:03.56] [00:31.30]I scream at you for sharing [00:33.05] [00:34.37]'N I curse you just for caring [00:36.74] [00:38.93]I hate the clothes you're wearing they're so pretty [00:46.74]'N I tell to not to see me [00:48.99] [00:50.06]'N I tell you not to feel me [00:52.67] [00:53.87]'N I make your life a drag it's such a pity [00:58.30] [01:01.86]'N I watch your warm glow palin' [01:04.93] [01:05.68]'N I watch your sparkle fadin' [01:08.93] [01:09.74]As you realise you're failin' cos you're so good [01:15.74] [01:17.24]Now I don't mean to upset you [01:19.24] [01:20.74]But there's so much crime to get through [01:23.31] [01:26.61]If only I could make it easier then I would [01:31.06] [01:32.74]Oh I wish I was your mother [01:34.75] [01:36.37]I wish I'd been your father [01:38.56] [01:40.80]'N then I would have seen you [01:43.75] [01:44.87]Would have been you as a child [01:46.50] [01:49.87]Played houses with your sisters [01:51.62] [01:53.31]And wrestled with all your brothers [01:56.24] [01:57.68]And then who knows [01:59.30] [02:00.75]I might have felt a family for a while [02:03.50] [02:21.90]It's no use me pretendin' [02:22.96] [02:25.34]You give and I do the spendin' [02:26.72] [02:29.17]Is there a happy ending I don't think so [02:37.34]Cos even if we make it [02:38.68] [02:41.24]I'll be too far out to take it [02:43.23] [02:44.49]You'll have to try and shake it from my head [02:49.42] [02:51.55]Oooooh I wish I was your mother [02:55.17] [02:58.29]I wish I'd been your father [02:59.99] [03:00.80]'N then I would have seen you [03:02.92] [03:04.18]Would have been you as a child [03:07.49] [03:08.17]Played houses with your sisters [03:14.24]And wrestled with all your brothers [03:16.24] [03:17.61]And then who knows [03:19.86]I might have felt a family for a while