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“Mama” is the thirteenth track of Bebe Rexha’s highly anticipated second studio album, Better Mistakes and interpolates the hit Queen song, “Bohemian Rhapsody”.
The melancholy ballad is a bittersweet tribute to her mother, and when speaking to The New York Post, Bebe said:
My mom had me when she w...
[Verse 1]
Oh I, I've cried a couple hundred nights
And I'll probably cry a hundred more
From tryna live a diamond life
And you, you know you did the best you could
I know you blame yourself at times
But it's too late to knock on wood
[Pre-Chorus]
And I love you so much, so much that it hurts
But that don't mean I'm gonna censor my words
Yeah I messed up, I messed up again
But I swear that my heart is as gold as it gets
[Chorus]
Mama told me to look to heaven
"It’s a dark, dark world, it's a dangerous place for a girl like you"
But mama, I don’t belong to heaven
'Cause I’ve sold my soul a long time ago, just like you
[Verse 2]
Maybe life, life is just a learning curvе
To get you in the nicest hеarse
Or maybe it just ends on earth
[Pre-Chorus]
And I love you so much, so much that it hurts
But that don't mean I'm gonna censor my words
Yeah I messed up, I lost all my friends
But I swear that my heart is as gold as it gets
[Chorus]
Mama told me to look to heaven
"It’s a dark, dark world, it's a dangerous place for a girl like you"
But mama, I don’t belong to heaven
'Cause I’ve sold my soul a long time ago, just like you
Mama was written by Bebe Rexha & Justin Tranter & Brian Lee & Jussifer & Freddie Mercury.
Bebe Rexha released Mama on Fri May 07 2021.
This song is about our mothers trying to protect us from the world, and the relationship I had with my mom. In the song I say, ‘I sold my soul. It’s too late for me. I don’t care about going to heaven. Right now, I’m just trying to get through. I’m trying to just get through this life. And I sold my...
I think [co-writer Brian Lee] had that in the back of his head subconsciously. And, of course, after writing the song, we’re like, “OK, we need to make sure this gets cleared.” And once Queen cleared it, we were really happy.
—Bebe Rexha, via The New York Post