The greatest compliment
That anybody has ever given me
Was telling me
That I looked like you
But the way they said it
Was more like
"You walk like her"
Both of us
With too much confidence
Maybe for our own good
And other people
Are always gonna remember the bad things
But me?
I remember dancing to tainted love
I remember writing with you
I remember every time
That I ever got in trouble
Every time
I never made sense
You swallowed my teenage punch
And spit it right back out at me
I see you
Every time I look in the mirror
Every time someone asks about a picture
Every time I hear the song "wish you were here"
Every time somebody even tries to make chili anywhere as good as yours
Thank you
For telling me to suck it up when I fell
For ignoring most of the bruises
And making me pay for my own lemonade stand
And for helping me budget my life
And for getting on my back
Every time I refuse to do my English homework
Thank you
For being the kind of woman
It is a compliment to be compared to
You
Firecracker woman
Taught me all that I know
And that is why
I'm happy knowing you are my mother
Because anything that you create
Cannot be impossibly terrible
