Mama Don't Understand Lyrics - Ambrosia

My mama don't understand 

She's impossible to the core 

Now she says that she's gettin' married 

He's a friend of a friend of the boy next door 

He's got all of the best intentions 

Half of a school degree 

When he does his song and dancin' 

They know they can be happy as the shows on TV 

She needs a change, she wants a life 

Where she can grow and they can thrive 

Some kind of space of her own 

A different view, another slant 

Another way, another chance 

To get on with her life 

(Mama she don't understand) 

Mama she don't 

She don't even know 

She don't know 

She don't understand 

She's gotta know 

If she can cut life on her own 

But like the man says 

"You can never go home again" 

You gotta come see the new place 

Mom, you're gonna feel right at home 

Could you just front that deposit 

Mama, we'll pay you back when the welfare check comes 

Nothin's gone as expected 

No one knows all the trouble we've seen 

But we'll pull ourselves together 

It's the two of us now, of course, baby makes three 

A little luck, an even break 

We'll find a way to have our cake 

And even eat a piece or two 

We'll show you how 

We're winnin' now 

We'll live it up 

Can't keep 'em down 

She don't understand me 

Don't understand me 

So mama, please understand 

(Mama, please understand) 

If it's possible, we implore 

Could we just move in these few things 

We won't get in the way and we'll sleep on the floor 

'cause, times have been getting tougher 

(Times have been getting tough) 

It's an unfriendly world outside 

They say things will pick up by summer 

Can we borrow the car, will you watch little Clyde 

Thanks a lot 

Mama don't understand 

Mama don't understand me 

Mama don't understand 

Mama don't understand me 

(Mama don't understand me) 

(Mama don't understand me, no) 

Mama don't understand 

She don't understand me 

(Mama don't understand me) 

(Mama, she don't understand me, yeah)