My mama don\'t like you, and she likes everyone That\'s the kind of quiet that wakes me up at one She don\'t raise her voice, she don\'t slam no door She just makes your favorite — then she don\'t no more Everybody gets \"baby\", you get \"hmm\" and a stare Everybody gets \"come back\", you get cold thin air And I keep defending what I can\'t defend My mama don\'t like you, and she likes everyone Mama\'s got a radar older than the interstate She read my daddy\'s lies before he learned to shave She says \"I ain\'t sayin\' nothin\', I\'m just sayin\' I see\" Then she lists every exit that you took from me The nights you went missing, the phone that went dead The way you say \"trust me\" like it\'s something you said She don\'t need a reason, she don\'t need no proof She just needs one Sunday alone with the truth My mama don\'t like you, and she likes everyone That\'s the kind of quiet that wakes me up at one She don\'t raise her voice, she don\'t slam no door She just makes your favorite — then she don\'t no more Everybody gets \"baby\", you get \"hmm\" and a stare Everybody gets \"come back\", you get cold thin air And I keep defending what I can\'t defend My mama don\'t like you, and she likes everyone Maybe love goes deaf in the ear that it needs Maybe I keep watering a garden of weeds Maybe I mistook the rush for a reason to stay Maybe \"he could change\" is the debt that I pay Mama never told me who I\'m allowed to choose She just left the light on and let me lose And the worst part isn\'t that she might be right It\'s that I\'ve been rehearsing your exit for months in the night So Mama, if you\'re listening — I ain\'t calling you blind I just needed to run out of road in my own time Say it plain, say it once, let it cut like it should If he\'s bad for me, tell me like only a mother could My mama don\'t like you, and she likes everyone That\'s the kind of quiet that wakes me up at one She don\'t raise her voice, she don\'t slam no door She just makes your favorite — then she don\'t no more Everybody gets \"baby\", you get \"hmm\" and a stare Everybody gets \"come back\", you get cold thin air And I\'m done defending what I can\'t defend My mama don\'t like you — no, she don\'t like you And she likes everyone... Everyone but you