Hearing her voice was like hearing the future so i covered my ears cuz i didn't want to hear her and just the same words come spilling out of my mouth looking at her is like looking in the mirror so i closed my eyes cuz i didn't want to see her and just the same my body moves with hers
  
  [Chorus: you see i wanted to go down where the water would wash it away where i could make my own tracks you are your mother's daughter they say and i say tell me something i don't know]
  
  see she'd done some things i didn't want to repeat so i thought if i'd close her out i'd come away clean so i told her my worries that i'd marry twice and never learn to love right and she said what you have learned from me is your self respect what i hope you have learned from me is when to leave a burning building
  
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  so the card said i have news for you you aren't me and i am not you just cuz we lose things and we tell the truth doesn't mean anything cuz you have always been you now i only hope that one day i can fill her shoes i'll be who i'll be by using her tools so she chose to move on life is too short to love mr. wrong
  
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  she wanted to go down where the water would wash it away where she could make her own tracks you are your mother's daughter they say and now i say thank you