Moving the center of a sprite to mouse

[usernamename]

This is a noob question but how do I move the center of a sprite to my mouse, currently I am using

position = get_viewport().get_mouse_position();

but this aligns the mouse to the top left of the sprite, and if I change the pivot point to the center of the sprite, the sprite then goes even further right and below where the mouse is. I know that I could easily just manually add to the x y values to get the result I want but I still want to know why this is happening to make things easier in the future.

[KingGD]

Set the pivot position of sprite to the half of its size not full.

[Locher]

Put the sprite inside a CenterContainer and then set the position of the container to be that of the mouse. If this doesnt work then your CenterContainer should have a use_top_left property that you need to enable