Oh Mum, My Mum

by Kate McGill

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Today marks 1 year since my Mum died. I really can't believe it's been that long... it feels like yesterday still. I wanted to do something special for the anniversary so I thought I'd properly record this song. I wrote it about a week or so after her death and singing it again took me right back to those moments. Crazy how music can do that. I lost count of how many times I cried whilst recording this. It actually got funny somewhere in the middle because I physically couldn't get through the line, 'oh Mum, my Mum, just gimme another way'. And then I was just laughing for a solid 2 minutes. Grief is absolutely fucking mental, that's for sure. This song will always be special to me because it was born from such raw emotion. I'd done zero processing or actual grieving by this point - I was still just in shock. I think I tried to get that across by singing 'no words are enough' over and over again. I can't even begin to tell you how much I miss her. Still, a year later, no words are enough. No words even come close to how I feel today. Go and hug someone you love right now and tell them how amazing they are. All the love xx

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woke up to a phone call from my brother
it wasn't good, an attack on your heart
through the tears, i rang my sister
that silence, it tore me apart

and now i'm travelling down
to an old home town
that we once knew
never did i think i'd be there without you
and seeing you there
on a hospital bed
where you'd pass through
tell me how we live here without you
tell me how we live here without you

we were lost
just hanging around
the centerpiece we knew had just gone
tequila shots, one train of thought
just anything to get through that day
oh mum, my mum
just gimme another way
oh mum, my mum
just gimme another way

and now i'm travelling down
to an old home town
that we once knew
never did i think i'd be there without you
and seeing you there
on a hospital bed
where you'd pass through
tell me how we live here without you
tell me how we live here without you

no words are enough
no words are enough
no words are enough
no words are enough

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released August 4, 2019

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