[Intro]
[Verse 1: Female Vocal]The kitchen light was always on for me.Your hands still smelled of flour and of tea.I'd curl up small against your worn housecoat.You hummed me home on every road I chose.
[Verse 2: Female Vocal]You gave the last piece though you said you'd eaten.You stayed awake till every storm retreated.No one taught you how to hold this much.You just knew, you just knew, a mother's touch.
[Chorus]You are the quiet in my every storm,The oldest song, the softest kind of warm.However far these tired feet may roam,Your arms were always, always my first home.
[Verse 3: Female Vocal]You wore your worry so I'd never see it.You signed the checks and swallowed what it cost you.I didn't know the weight you carried silent,Until I held my own and finally saw you.
[Pre-chorus]So here's the thank you I was always saving,For every night you sat there, patient, waiting.
[Chorus]You are the quiet in my every storm,The oldest song, the softest kind of warm.However far these tired feet may roam,Your arms were always, always my first home.
[Bridge: Strings Swelling, Vocal Half-Whispered]Maybe I forgot to say it plainly,Maybe I was young and took the shelter blindly,But every good thing I have built and carried,Was learned inside the love you never buried.
[Instrumental Break: String Quartet and Piano]
[Chorus - High Energy with Layered Vocals]You are the quiet in my every storm,The oldest song, the softest kind of warm.However far these tired feet may roam,Your arms were always, always my first home.
[Outro: Sparse, Piano and Vocal Only]Still the kitchen light is on for me.Still I hear you humming quietly.However far, whatever I become,Mama, you were always, always home.