Lyrics: Ivey Hadebe
Music: Ivey Hadebe
Mama, can you hear me through the quiet tonight?
I’m staring at the heavens, searching for your light,
When you left, the world turned colder than stone,
I learned how it feels to stand truly alone,
They whispered I was nothing, said I’d never be strong,
Turned my pain into proof that I didn’t belong,
But you were the voice that lived in my mind,
Telling me, “My child your moment will come”
Now I speak to the sky where your love still lives on,
From the dark of my past a new soul is born,
They tried to break me, said I’d never fly high,
But even broken wings still remember the sky,
I walked through the fire, I survived every storm,
Through tears and through pain I was quietly reborn,
Mama look at me now, can you see who I’ve become?
I am everything you said I was.
After you, their words cut deeper than knives,
Every failure I carried, they used to define,
They said I was weak, said I’d never go far,
Tried to dim every dream, tried to silence my heart,
I cried in the night where nobody could see,
Begging heaven to send you back here to me,
But in the silence I felt your embrace,
Like the wind softly whispering, “Stand, rise, have faith.”
So I spoke to the sky where your love still lives on,
From the ashes inside a new soul was born,
They tried to break me, said I’d never fly high,
But even broken wings still remember the sky,
I walked through the fire, I survived every storm,
Through pain and through tears I was quietly reborn,
Mama look at me now, can you see who I’ve become?
I am everything you said I was.
Mama, I made it I’m stronger than before,
Every chain that once held me lies broken on the floor,
The girl they called worthless now stands in the light,
The fear is gone I learned how to fight,
You were the only one who saw who I could be,
Now I see her too living inside of me,
They were wrong Mama, you were right all along,
Your little girl grew into the woman you saw.
So I sing to the sky where your love still lives on,
From the pain of my past a bright soul reborn,
They tried to break me, said I’d never fly high,
But even broken wings still remember the sky,
I carry your love in every step that I take,
You were my truth when the whole world was fake,
Mama look at me now your faith made me strong
I became the woman you knew all along.