Palmer, Amanda - Look Mummy, No Hands Lyrics

😭 ...und ich weiß nicht mal, warum ich jedes Mal so weinen muss...

❤Amanda❤
Schon so lang und für immer.

Wow. Beautiful version.
I heard Dillie Keane (who wrote this song) perform it earlier in the week, but this is a rare case of a cover exceeding the original. Thank you!

I’d recently lost my mother less than a year ago to cancer unexpectedly. Within five days of diagnosis she had passed. This left me alone, lost, drifting at 24 years old. Overwhelmed with the pressure of navigating life with no guidance, suddenly supporting a family and household. This song has touched me in a way I don’t think any other song has. Thank you Amanda, for always being able to express how I feel inside in a way that’s healing and comforting, for always making us feel like we’re not alone in how we feel and that what we’re feeling is normal.

Mummy is relentlessly touring. Get in there!

AMANDA what happened to your eyebrows?
;) <3

Lyrics:

Remember the Fairmont
The two of us there, mom
By the merry-go-round
I stood there entranced
As the bright horses danced
To a magical sound
Just a dollar for pleasure untold
And I rode in a whirl of scarlet and gold

Look, mummy, no hands
I'm riding the roundabout all by myself
Look, mummy, no hands
I called as I passed her, faster and faster
"Hold on tight, darling"
She called out in fear
But I laughed and pretended
That I couldn’t hear
How careless we are when we're young

Remember the years
Of the sulks and the tears
Do you recall?
I hated you when you said
Be back by ten
I knew it all
Always asking to know what I'd done
When as far as I knew, I was just having fun

Look, mummy, no hands
I know how to take good care of myself
Look, mummy, no hands
Please don’t be a bore, cause I know the score
She tried to warn me
But I didn't hear her
I was grown up
And I didn't need her
How careless we are when we're young

Remember the daughter
And all that you taught her
She's grown up at last
With a child of her own
She struggles alone
As the years all rush pass
But now you're not there to answer her call
You're not there to catch her when she stumbles and falls

Look, mummy, no hands
I'm having to do it all by myself
Look, mummy, no hands
I used to dismiss you, now I just miss you
As my child grows away from me
I feel my heart sinking
I look back and smile
And I find myself thinking
How careless we are when we’re young

I'll just add this to the list of songs that have broken me after 1 in the morning... On the plus side, I was about due for a cry-myself-to-sleep night anyway.

Love it.

Everything this woman plays destroys me emocionally. In a very good way but it still hurts. I don't know what I'll do when my mother's gone. We are all living in the moment, never realizing that tomorrow could be the day she's gone. So for the moment I'll just enjoy her as much as I can. Thanks for the reminder, Amanda!

Finally an official version of this song. It’s always been a favorite of mine. I love how you sing it.

As someone who's mother passed away when I was a teenager... This song really hit me hard. Makes me bawl almost every time...

well I have shivers and I am sobbing! love it!

my daughters moving away this year for university......it's hard, especially on days when we argue. Thank you Amanda <3

I would like you to know, Amanda Fucking Palmer, that you have created the most wonderful and meaningful album I have heard in years. Thank you so much for sharing this with us all. This song in particular makes me blub.

It's been 5 years since my mom died on the 9th of March. This song makes me cry damn near every time. Thank you. I love you.

March 9th is my moms birthday. Reading that killed me. I am so sorry.

This totally destroyed me but in the most needed and cathartic way. I lost my mom Nov 2014 and my dad this past July. I haven't had the chance to breathe and take it in that I'm making it on my own.....with no hands. LOVE LOVE LOVE the new album.

I'm in love with such rendition of such a beautiful song (that I didn't know before listening to your beutiful record). Thanks Amanda! <3

Nobody writes the way you do. <3

Edit: apparently this song is by Dillie Keane, but still, nobody writes like Amanda 💜

This is a song by Dillie Keane from Fascinating Aida, but it does sound very different when Amanda does it.

Who AreYou oh wow thank you! 😊 i had no idea, it does sound a bit like something amanda might write. i just assumed. beautiful song.

"I laughed and pretended that I didn't hear." Reminds me of when I was little and hid under one of those circle department store hangers full of clothes and didn't come out when my mom called for me, making her call security and become extremely upset. Oh now I'm sad.

lol I used to love to do that!

This is so haunting! I love it

All hail Dillie Keane.

Thank you!

this is so beautiful . x

The first time Amanda sang this to me ... years ago ... she made me cry. Now I'm older, wiser, stronger ... and ... she still makes me cry. Thanks a lot Amanda

A new album, as I wake up this 8th of march... thank you Amanda <3

This is great!!