[00:17.69]Welcome to the end of being alone inside your mind
[00:21.82]Tethered to another and you’re worried all the time
[00:26.36]You always knew the melody but you never heard it rhyme
[00:35.70]She’s fair and she is quiet, Lord, she doesn’t look like me
[00:39.74]She made me love the morning, she’s a holiday at sea
[00:44.52]The New York streets are as busy as they always used to be
[00:49.50]But I am the mother of Evangeline
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[00:58.87]The first things that she took from me were selfishness and sleep
[01:03.56]She broke a thousand heirlooms I was never meant to keep
[01:08.25]She filled my life with color, cancelled plans and trashed my car
[01:12.58]But none of that is ever who we are
[01:18.11]Outside of my windows are the mountains and the snow
[01:22.19]I hold you while you’re sleeping and I wish that I could go
[01:27.29]All my rowdy friends around accomplishing their dreams
[01:31.57]But I am the mother of Evangeline
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[01:40.38]They’ve still got their morning paper and their coffee and their time
[01:45.63]They still enjoy their evenings with the skeptics and their wine
[01:49.91]Oh but all the wonders I have seen I will see a second time
[01:55.39]From inside of the ages through your eyes
[02:00.54]You were not an accident where no one thought it through
[02:05.52]The world has stood against us, made us mean to fight for you
[02:10.70]And when we chose your name we knew that you’d fight the power, too
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[02:19.73]You’re nothing short of magical and beautiful to me
[02:23.67]I would never hit the big time without you
[02:27.97]So they can keep their treasure and their ties to the machine
[02:33.94]Cause I am the mother of Evangeline
[02:40.73]They can keep their treasure and their ties to the machine
[02:48.35]Cause I am the mother of Evangeline
[02:54.14]Ooooh....