Lyrics: Zhong Junxian
Music: Zhong Junxian
My Mother Looked Younger Then - LUNA VALE
Ooh
my mother
looked younger then
My mother looked younger in the doorway
calling me in before the night
I only heard a voice behind me
I never thought about her life
Her hands were always doing something
Her coat was hanging by the chair
I thought that mothers stayed forever
standing exactly there
Now I look back and see her waiting
while I was busy growing tall
I was becoming someone's future
She was giving me her all
My mother looked younger then
and I was too young to understand
She was not only there to hold me
She was a girl with tired hands
My mother looked younger then
I wish I knew it at the time
I miss the child that I had been
and the woman she was beside
She kept the light on in the kitchen
She knew the sound of every key
I ran toward the world so quickly
I never saw her watching me
Now when I hear somebody calling
from a room I cannot see
I think about the years she gave me
before she ever asked for peace
I cannot go back and be kinder
I cannot slow those evenings down
But I can love her more carefully
with the years we still have now
My mother looked younger then
and I was too young to understand
She was not only there to hold me
She was a girl with tired hands
My mother looked younger then
I wish I knew it at the time
I miss the child that I had been
and the woman she was beside
If time is listening somewhere
please be gentle when you pass
Some people spend their whole young life
making someone else's last
My mother looked younger then
and I was too young to understand
She was not only there to hold me
She was a girl with tired hands
My mother looked younger then
I wish I knew it at the time
I miss the child that I had been
and the woman she was beside
Ooh
I wish I knew it
at the time