Mama Would Original Broadway Cast of Beetlejuice (Ft. Sophia Anne Caruso)

[LYDIA]
Mama would take her foot off the gas on the way back home
On the way back home from school
Slip into neutral at the top of the hill and away we’d roll
No braking ‘cause braking was breaking the rules

Mama could roleplay like nobody else
Pretend we were birds and make nests in the house
One time she spat chewed up food in my mouth
She was free, she was everything a mother should be
When nobody else believed in me, Mama would

Mama would never accept things just the way they were
Mama would always see so much more
Like the way she’d say “We're being chased by a murderer!”
As she fumbled for the keys to the door

No matter how awkward or hard, Mama would ask
Mama would never presume
When others would hide or pretend
Mama made friends with the elephants in the room

She’d want us to talk about her
Why doesn’t he talk about her?
I know, sure as hell, that if the shoe was on the other foot
That Mama would