Mama Don't Preach

I need to feel like a man

Not for you to be my mom

I’m perfectly capable of living alone

But a better life with you along

But now I feel less like a man

And you a lot like my mom

Yes true that I do love my mother

But loving you like that is weird altogether

Maybe I come back when I’m more of a man

Maybe I come back when you’re less a mother

When you no more dictate today’s underpants

When you don’t ask did I take too short a shower

Baby, the rule is simple

I’m more of a man if you don’t mother me

You’re more my woman if you smother me.

With love I mean not endless nagging

With matrimonial love not maternal ranting.

Baby, I can be your baby

Please, just not too literally.