Mama's Knees – Rob Matare | Thank You Mom Gospel Song (Official Lyric Video)

Thank you mom gospel song: Mama's Knees by Rob Matare. ▶ Listen to Mama's Knees: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/34xq5w... Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/mama... YouTube Music:    • Mama's Knees   Mama's Knees by Rob Matare: “I thought it was the hustle, the grind” Subscribe for a new song every day ▶    / @robmatare   Which line hits you hardest? Tell me in the comments. ▶ Play the whole album:    • Soft Life, Clean Heart (Full Album) – Rob ...   Mama's Knees is a soulful afro pop song with a gospel choir and a whisper of highlife guitar, a gratitude song for mom about the prayers that carried a son further than his own hustle ever could. A son flies home a success, his shoes worth more than his mother's stove. She meets him at the door as if nothing has changed, tells him he looks thin, sits him down to soup that is still hot and warns him to keep his big-man phone off her pot. Same laugh, same bright wrapper, same busy hands. Then, passing her room as evening falls, he sees something he never noticed growing up: beside her bed the floorboards are worn pale, one patch rubbed bare, the size of two knees and twenty years of wear. When he asks what happened to the wood, she says that is where she put him in better hands than hers. The second verse fills in her life. She is nobody to pity; she would chase you with a spoon. She buried hard years and still hummed a tune, raised four children on a market table and a prayer, and sold bread at dawn so his school fees were paid. At four in the morning, while the house was still, she knelt, twenty years with no applause and no crowd. He asks what she prayed for, and she tells him not his money: she prayed he would stay kind. The choir then turns the question to everyone listening: who prayed you through the border, through the fever, through the years you never talk about? In the bridge the music drops to one guitar and he kneels in the patch she wore, the wood smooth like a river stone. He thought he climbed alone, but the floor still knows her name. He keeps the patch bare and will not sand that floor, because some things you do not fix. "Her knees paid for my wings" WHAT THIS SONG IS ABOUT This is a song about the love that works in silence. The son believed his rise came from talent and the grind, and the choir answers each boast with a gentle "no, son." It is about gratitude arriving late but arriving fully, about a mother's faith as the hidden engine of a life, and about the humility of kneeling where she knelt. It honors every parent who prayed without being thanked. WHO IT IS FOR Play it as a mothers day song, at a birthday dinner for the woman who raised you, or on the drive home after years away. It belongs on any playlist of songs about mother and family, beside a quiet prayer song for a Sunday morning, and it speaks to anyone who loves african gospel music with a warm rhythm and a choir that answers back. ABOUT THE ALBUM This track is from Soft Life, Clean Heart, an album of warm afro pop and R&B stories about love, home and grace, from a township choir pushing a broken bus toward Durban to a grandmother outdancing her whole family to an old semba. Which prayer carried you further than you ever knew? Tell us in a comment? ▶ Stream the album everywhere: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/rob... CHAPTERS 0:00 Verse 1 1:16 Chorus 1:31 Verse 2 2:09 Chorus 2:22 Verse 3 2:57 Final Chorus 3:15 Outro CREDITS Produced by Rob Matare Label: EpicSound360 #Afrobeats #RobMatare #MamaSKnees #AfroPop