Lorraine

The kitchen smells like orange peels
 Her stomach turns like a spinning wheel
 Put the baby down in her little seat
 You should rest now mama you should eat
 It ain't right you been working all day
 All us kids getting in your way
 So she goes to bed as soon as the kitchen's clean
 That don't mean a thing to you but it does to me
 Well I don't know if this part is true
 How memories lie sometimes they do
 But I can see her in our living room
 With a smile on her face as she's dancing to
 Judy Garland, Carnegie Hall, Sunday April 23rd
 She said her cousin had a balcony seat
 And that don't mean a thing to you but it does to me
 Oh Lord, am I good enough
 When this world spins as hard as it does
 And we both know how it shakes some people up
 So how did you decide to give me so much love
 Well, she never said a word to me
 About dying, about how she'd leave
 In all her pain she would never cry
 Me and my best friend Tina would ride our bikes
 From Lelland Road up Daily Drive
 We took a paper route one summer time
 Tina's mom said I was part of the family
 And that don't mean a thing to you but it does to me
 Oh Lord, am I good enough
 When this world spins as hard as it does
 And we both know how it shakes some people up
 So how did you decide to give me so much love,
 Love love, so much love, so much love
 Love love, you give me so much love, so much love
 No one's had a bigger say
 In who I am today
 And I swear I've tried to be worthy of
 The name they gave me when I was young
 But I ain't that pretty, I ain't that brave
 My kids have seen me cry
 They should have given her name to my sister Marie
 And that don't mean a thing to you,
 That don't mean a thing to you
 But it does to me