| How many times did I say I wanted true love?
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| When you read me stories and held me to your breast, yeah
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| And how many times did I ask I wanted to stay up? |
| (Wanted to stay up)
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| But my daddy told me I should go to bed, yeah
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| And they left me there
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| Wide awake so excited
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| I crept downstairs
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| And heard something break in the room
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| Oh and then my dad left the room
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| And I said mommy, please don’t cry (Don't cry)
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| Oh, I’ll stay up with you all night (All night)
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| We’ll eat the cookies off the mantle by the lights (By the lights)
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| And she said baby it’s alright (Alright)
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| Just look around it’s warm and bright (And bright)
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| But I still felt so cold upon that winter night
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| I was five
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| Oh, I was 5, oh
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| Oh, I was 5
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| Oh, I was 5, oh
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| And that star on the tree
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| That I cannot reach
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| Is looming weighted over me
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| And the presents beneath
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| Don’t mean shit to me
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| If I can’t have my family
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| On this Christmas eve
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| I can’t let you leave
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| I need you to stay, here with me
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| But these little hands
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| No, they can’t grasp
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| Anything
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| So I said mommy, please don’t cry
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| Oh, I’ll stay up with you all night (All night)
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| We’ll eat the cookies off the mantle by the lights (By the lights)
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| And she said baby it’s alright (Alright)
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| Just look around it’s warm and bright (And bright)
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| But I still felt so cold upon that winter night
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| I was five
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| And they left me there
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| They left me there, oh yeah
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| So on the 25th tonight
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| I’ll just wash my .45
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| And pull the only thing that I can hold tonight
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| And I wrote mommy please don’t cry
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| Just know I loved you all my life
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| There’s just so much shit I feel at 25
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| So this is goodbye |