Grandma Lyrics

Can't nobody cook like grandma

Dont nobody show a love like

Nobody's got the family's back like grandma

Who I feel when I look in the sky

You used to cook us hotcakes when we'd visit

I'd be first in line for your macaroni every Christmas

I'd get seconds thirds fourths I enjoyed its subtle sweetness

You'd say "careful you'll get sick of it" but I never did

Moms would try to imitate it when you weren't around

But the recipe was stored in your heart you never wrote it down

A dash of this a dash of that and even if the portions were exact

The love you poured into it couldn't be matched

And in my lowest moments sleeping in my car by the river

You said "Grandson what're you doing? You've got a home where I'm living

Always grab your things make your way I've got a hot stove"

I tried to clean you wouldn't let me wash a bowl

You said "I've got that I've got you

Like I always have"

I used to ride my bike to your house when moms would fight with dad

To block the scrapping out

You and Aunt Pris would pull the scrabble out

We must've played about a thousand rounds

Can't nobody cook like grandma

Dont nobody show a love like

Nobody's got the family's back like grandma

Who I feel when I look in the sky

Hot cakes bacon and eggs

That's Grandma

Sweet tea and fresh lemonade

That's Grandma

Brought the fam together again

That's Grandma

Frozen push pops for the kids

That's Grandma

I Remember when you lost your husband

After months in the hospital struggling

I was too young to see what was coming

Til he was gone

I came over with mom you showed me your arm

There was R-O-Y in varicose veins that was his name

You smiled thru the tears and told me love's a crazy thing

We're never really alone even when we think we may

Be

We shared a hug and then a prayer

Great spirit's always there even when we're not aware

You were our lighthouse

And you collected ceramic lighthouses

Every time we'd travel we would have to bring one back

We div'd em all up when you passed

Mine had to get shipped to me and unfortunately on the way it cracked

But I've never loved it any less

Like how you never judged your grandkids

From jail time to unplanned kids

Your spot was everything from daycare to a halfway house

From the yard we'd play in to the dinner table we'd gather round

Can't nobody cook like grandma

Dont nobody show a love like

Nobody's got the family's back like grandma

Who I feel when I look in the sky

Hot cakes bacon and eggs

That's Grandma

Sweet tea and fresh lemonade

That's Grandma

Brought the fam together again

That's Grandma

Frozen push pops for the kids

That's Grandma

Nowadays when you come around it's mostly in the family meal stories and the distortions of melting eyelash snowflakes

As the back of forth of forest birdsongs

And every newborns' foot in plaster

You're in every breath breathed

Without you so many of us wouldn't be

You are the butterfly with angel wings

You are the topper on the Christmas tree

You're in my prayers before I fall asleep

I'll never see a word search without a tear forming again

Or a sunflower's shadow without mistaking your laugh

Like wind chimes from a rocking chair

Sometimes I wish we had you back

But mostly I'm glad you're free

There comes a time when every vessel makes like autumn leaves

I have no doubt that you and grandpa are together now

I hope your next lives are the blessings you deserve

I hope you spend them by the beach and you never have to work

And even if I never ever get to hug you again

I'ma hold you in my heart with the tightest of grips

The first thanksgiving that came after you passed and went

Mom's macaroni tasted exactly like yours did on accident

Can't nobody cook like grandma

Dont nobody show a love like

Nobody's got the family's back like grandma

Who I feel when I look in the sky

Hot cakes bacon and eggs

That's Grandma

Sweet tea and fresh lemonade

That's Grandma

Brought the fam together again

That's Grandma

Frozen push pops for the kids

That's Grandma