I Am Because You Are ft. Massy, Akotowaa & UZÉI Lyrics

I know I made you proud

You are life itself

Mama

Look at your girl now

You'll always be my home

No matter where I go

You lift me up

No matter how far

You lift me higher

You lift me higher

You lift me higher

You lift me higher

There are a million ways to write about the weight mothers carry

And there's a threshold after which truth turns to cliché

Formulas to reframe suffering as strength

But Mama, you live like you are free

Your love for me is not the type that threatens to fall apart

like parchment of an ancient code of obligation

Desperately close to disintegration

You chose me

Your love is elastic

Could wrap around snap right back like nothing happened

Northern star

I am, because you are

Every image, every form

Makes me love you even more

Northern star

I am, because you are

Every image, every form

Makes me love you even more

You lift me higher

You lift me higher

You lift me higher

You lift me higher

There goes these speeches

There goes my heart

It's saying out loud

Screaming out loud

Mother, mother

Your love knows no bounds

Your strength, I am in awe of how much I want to love you

Want to hold you

Want to tell you you saved me

Northern star

I am, because you are

Every image, every form

Makes me love you even more

Northern star

I am, because you are

Every image, every form

Makes me love you even more

I am because you are

You rise and so I soar

I've lost sight of the floor

You never let me fall