Dm C G
There was a time when I was happy in my life.
Dm C G
There was a time when I thought I'd live forever.
Dm C G
There was a time when I prayed to Jesus Christ.
Dm C G
There was a time I had a mother, it was nice.
Am F Dm
Oh mother, why aren't you here with me.
Am F Dm
No one else saw the things that you could see.
Am F Dm
I'm trying hard to dry my tears.
Am F
Yes father, you know I'm not so free.
Dm C G
Nobody else would ever take the place of you.
Dm C G
Nobody else could do the things that you could do.
Dm C G
Nobody else could ever hurt me like you did.
Dm C G
I didn't understand, I was just a kid.
Am F Dm
Oh mother, why aren't you here with me.
Am F Dm
No one else saw the things that you could see.
Am F Dm
I'm trying hard to dry my tears.
Am F Dm
Yes father, you know I'm not so free.
Am F
I got to give it up, find someone to love me.
Am F
I got to let it go, find someone that I can care for.
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Am F
I got to give it up, find someone to love me.
Am F
I got to let it go, find someone that I can care for.
Am F
My mother died when I was five and all I did was sit and cry.
Am F
I cried and cried and cried all day until the neighbours went away.
Am F
They couldn't take my loneliness, I couldn't take their phoniness.
Am F
My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk.
Am F
I didn't know his heart was broke and not another word was spoke
Am F
and he became a shadow of the father I was dreaming of.
Am
I made a vow that I would never need another person ever.
F Am F
Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage.
Am F Am F
I got to give it up, find somebody to love. Find someone that I can care for.
Am F Am F
I got to give it up, find somebody to love. Find someone that I can care for.
Am F Am
I got to give it up, I got to give it up, I got to give it up.
F
I got to give it up, I got to give it up.
Am F Am F
I got to let it go, I got to give it up.
Am F Am F
Oh mother, oh father, I got to give it up.
Am F Am F Am
