I looked in your eyes

But didn't feel a damn thing

All I ever felt

Was your bark and your sting

Tryna force a love

That ain't real

Tryna make me feel

Things I'd never feel

The only love I knew

Was Grandma's embrace

So keep on screamin' in my face

You're not a mother

You're a waste of space

The blood in my veins

Don't make you my mother

I chose my family

I ain't choosing another

I'm telling you now

Like I told you before

You'll never be my mother

You're a stranger nothin' more

That's a title

You could never earn

You tried to demand it

But you'd learn

I was two

Sittin' proud on Grandma's hip

Wasn't afraid of nothin

I was all lip

I pulled back that toy

And threw with all I had

Caught you square on the nose

Made you nice and mad

I watched you bleed

And I didn't feel a thing

Just the joy

A clean hit on a monster could bring

I was only a baby

But I had already learned

Who you were

And who you fuckin' weren't

The blood in my veins

Don't make you my mother

I chose my family

I ain't choosing another

I'm telling you now

Like I told you before

You'll never be my mother

You're a stranger nothin' more

That's the funny thing

'Bout love

Didn't learn it

From you

Learned it

From someone else

While you lost your mind to drugs

Unable to help yourself

She gave me

What you never could

She loved me

Like you never would

So if you wonder why

Mom will never be your name

Well

You've only got yourself to blame

The blood in my veins

Don't make you my mother

I chose my family

I ain't choosing another

I'm telling you now

Like I told you before

You'll never be my mother

You're a stranger nothin' more

You're a stranger nothin' more