Mean It - Seattle Sessions

I was born next to my mother She sang me to sleep And I grew to adore my father As he drowned in a drink And I know that I should be grateful For the things they taught I was raised to be so damn faithful I didn't need a god Time is crazy My grandmother made up a lie of her life When she died, well, she gave me A necklace that came from the sky Said my grandfather made it, out of gold And a diamond that always reminded him Of what life could have been So when I say, "I love you" I wanna mean it 'Cause I say a lot of things that I don't mean And when I say, "I want to" I wanna mean it 'Cause I know not to say "yes" to just anything Hope to die next to my daughter Let her sing me to sleep Having made the mistakes of a mother Still, I taught her to breathe When you're low and you're deep underwater Stay faithful, remember what you love So when the world gets painful You become your own god I could daydream Sit back and think of a mythical life But the seasons change and the tragic Thing is that you can't live it twice So I try to be brave and tell her that We'll meet again that we'd met before But I'm not really so sure So when I say, "I love you" I wanna mean it 'Cause I say a lot of things that I don't mean And when I say, "I want to" I wanna mean it 'Cause I know not to say "yes" to just anything So when I say, "I love you" I wanna mean it 'Cause I say a lot of things that I don't mean And when I say, "I want to" I wanna mean it 'Cause I know not to say "yes" to just anything When I say, "I love you" I wanna mean it 'Cause I say a lot of things that I don't mean And when I say, "I want to" I wanna mean it 'Cause I know not to say "yes" to just anything