Mama just wants a perfect Daughter,
Expectations keep coming like drops of water,
Drip,
Drip,
Soon the cup spills over.

Mama doesn't know,
She doesn't try to understand,
The expectations overflow.

Mama just wants to win her prom queen crown,
Dress-up doll, marionnette, spinning round and round,
Dance,
Dance,
The doll falls down.

Mama just wants to live her perfect life,
Competent, admired, perfect loving wife,
Fight,
Fight,
Someone else's fight.

Mama doesn't know,
She doesn't try to understand,
Expectations overflow.

Mama just wants to start over again,
Undo her mistakes, avoid tears, live without pain,
Try,
Try,
She slowly goes insane.

Never enough, Mama's perfect Daughter,
Mama can't be her, won't free her,
Drip,
Drip,
Expectations pull her under.