Delois

Six years on the twenty-second, the tears still fall

Mom, you really hurt me with this one, most of all

My heart cries out for your love every single day

I'm in my feelings since the Lord called you away

I'm walking through this life trying to play my part

But you left a heavy void inside my broken heart

Oh, Delois, you had a heart of solid gold

A tender kind of mercy that would never grow cold

Beside God, you always had the answer for me

Now I’m lost without the light you’d let me see

I miss you, I love you, I need you through it all

My sweet mother, my Beautiful Black China Doll

I miss how we would just lay in bed and talk

Laughing and passing the hours on the clock

You’d smile and ask if I took my crazy medicine today

Then ask for yours to take your aching pain away

You’d say, "I don't trust you, bring me your bag"

Lord knows I'm lost without the greatest love I had

Oh, Delois, you had a heart of solid gold

A tender kind of mercy that would never grow cold

Beside God, you always had the answer for me

Now I’m lost without the light you’d let me see

I miss you, I love you, I need you through it all

My sweet mother, my Beautiful Black China Doll

You’d give the shirt right off your back, you’d feed anyone

Point them in the right direction till the day was done

I’m going through things now, and I need your advice

But I know you're getting your rest up in paradise

Kiss daddy Bernard and baby brother Gregory for me

Tell them that I miss you all, until eternity

Oh, Delois, you had a heart of solid gold

A tender kind of mercy that would never grow cold

Beside God, you always had the answer for me

One day we’ll be reunited, finally free

Continue to get your rest, I’ll hear you when you call

My sweet mother, my Beautiful Black China Doll