You still remember when mother used to cry,
When she’d crush down, break but still try,
When you used to tell me stories how she would fly,
To give us the best, to hold up the sky.

I still remember all the sacrifices she used to make,
All her life, she never even made it fake,
I thought all she did was just a piece of cake,
But now I see it was all for our own sake

Dear brother, I just want you to keep it in mind,
So when I grow, you can then help me to find,
All the happiness she then tried to grind,
Dear brother, she really deserves peace of mind.

All the tears she shed, out of our face,
Alone in her sacred sorrowful own space,
And when frustration made her tear down the place,
And when I’d see her wet tears on her pillowcase

Brother, I just want us to make mother proud,
I want her to know her dreams are now found,
And we declare her struggles to be profound,
Because she was able to scream above her sound,

Tell our sisters “etlang re age” empire,
“Re hlomole mebetlwa maotong a gagwe,
Re mokuke le ge dinao di setse di mogana,
Re leboge mabokgoni le maatla agagwe,”

I’ve seen her try to give us a better life,
You’ve told me all she’d do so we could survive,
And how she became a slave for us to stay alive,
Alone even when father never came to arrive

Now that mother has shown me a way,
I think it is time for me to stamp away,
Go hustle hard and bring her a takeaway,
So brother help me prove her dreams haven’t passed way,

All this I want it for our mother,
She’s the best and there’s no other,
Now I don’t wanna talk about our father,
And that story, well you know it’s another,

Dear brother, I just want you to keep it in mind,
So when I grow, you can then help me to find,
All the happiness she then tried to grind,
Dear brother, she really deserves peace of mind.