Songwriter: Paula Cole
Producer: Kevin Killen
[Verse 1]
I remember the pain in my mother's eyes
I remember the pain of her compromise years ago
I always wanted to help to make it go away
I didn't know it was her freedom that she needed so
[Pre-Chorus]
And she said to me
She said to me
[Chorus]
He hitchhiked to Maine
We went cross-country
I had to leave my home
Had to raise a family
We did the best we could being so young
We tried so hard to build a happy home
[Verse 2]
I never knew what to say to anybody
I didn't know what to do, I was far too young
But everybody could feel the suffocation
Underneath the facade of a happy home
[Pre-Chorus]
And she said to me
She said to me
[Chorus]
He hitchhiked to Maine
We went cross-country
I had to leave my home
I had to raise a family
We did the best we could being so young
We tried so hard to build a happy
Build a happy
Build a happy
[Bridge]
Home sweet freedom
Flowing in my eyes
Home sweet freedom
Flowing in my mind
[Chorus]
We did the best we could being so young
We tried so hard to build a happy home
[Verse 3]
Sacrificed her dreams to motherhood
Waiting and waiting to be understood fully
Sacrificed her years to the family
Waiting and waiting to be heard finally
[Pre-Chorus]
And she said to me
She said to me
[Chorus]
He hitchhiked to Maine
We went cross-country
I had to leave my home
I had to raise a family
We did the best we could being so young
We tried so hard to build a happy home
He hitchhiked to Maine
We went cross-country
I had to leave my home
I had to raise a family
We did the best we could being so young
We tried so hard to build a happy
Build a happy
Build a happy
Home sweet freedom
[Outro]
Build a happy home
I remember the pain in my mother's eyes
I remember the pain of her compromise years ago
I always wanted to help to make it go away
I didn't know it was her freedom that she needed so
[Pre-Chorus]
And she said to me
She said to me
[Chorus]
He hitchhiked to Maine
We went cross-country
I had to leave my home
Had to raise a family
We did the best we could being so young
We tried so hard to build a happy home
[Verse 2]
I never knew what to say to anybody
I didn't know what to do, I was far too young
But everybody could feel the suffocation
Underneath the facade of a happy home
[Pre-Chorus]
And she said to me
She said to me
[Chorus]
He hitchhiked to Maine
We went cross-country
I had to leave my home
I had to raise a family
We did the best we could being so young
We tried so hard to build a happy
Build a happy
Build a happy
[Bridge]
Home sweet freedom
Flowing in my eyes
Home sweet freedom
Flowing in my mind
[Chorus]
We did the best we could being so young
We tried so hard to build a happy home
[Verse 3]
Sacrificed her dreams to motherhood
Waiting and waiting to be understood fully
Sacrificed her years to the family
Waiting and waiting to be heard finally
[Pre-Chorus]
And she said to me
She said to me
[Chorus]
He hitchhiked to Maine
We went cross-country
I had to leave my home
I had to raise a family
We did the best we could being so young
We tried so hard to build a happy home
He hitchhiked to Maine
We went cross-country
I had to leave my home
I had to raise a family
We did the best we could being so young
We tried so hard to build a happy
Build a happy
Build a happy
Home sweet freedom
[Outro]
Build a happy home
- Harbinger (1994)
- Greatest Hits: Postcards From East Oceanside (2006)
- I Don’t Want to Wait
- Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?
- I Am So Ordinary
- Lovelight
- Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? (edit)
- God Bless The Child
- Me - remastered
- Hush, hush, hush. - remastered
- Carmen
- Mississippi
- Why Don’t You Go?
- Garden of Eden
- Be Somebody
- Lonelytown
- I Wanna Kiss You
- The Ladder
- Amen
- P.R.E.N.U.P.
- God Is Watching
- Me
- 14
- Throwing Stones
- Eloise
- Oh John