
Date of issue: 22.01.1996
Record label: Curb
Song language: English
No Time To Cry |
My father died |
A year ago today |
The rooster started crowing |
When they carried dad away |
There beside my mother |
In the livingroom, I stood |
With my brother and my sister |
Knowin' dad was gone for good |
Then I, I hung around |
Just long enough to lay him in the ground |
Then I caught a plane to do a show |
Up north in Detroit town |
Because I’m older now and I ain’t got not time to cry |
I got no time to look back, I got no time to see |
The pieces of my heart |
That have been ripped away from me |
And if the feelings start to come in |
I’ve learned to stop them fast |
'Cause I don’t know if I let em go |
They might not wanna pass |
And there’s just so many people |
Tryin to get me on the phone |
And there’s bills to pay and songs to play |
And a house to make a home |
I guess I’m older now and I ain’t got not time to cry |
I can still remember before I heard of Merle |
So many things have changed |
So much here in my world |
I remember sitting on the front porch |
When an ambulance drove by |
Just listening to those sirens |
I would break down and cry |
Now, I’m walkin' and I’m talkin' |
Doin' just what I’m supposed to do |
Working overtime to make sure |
I don’t come unglued |
Because I’m older now and I ain’t got not time to cry |
I sit down on the sofa and I watch the evening news |
There’s a half-a-dozen tragedies |
From which to pick and choose |
The baby that was missing |
Was found in a ditch today |
And there’s bombs flying |
And people dying not so far away |
I’ll take a beer from the fridgerator |
And sit in the yard |
With a cold one in my hand |
I’m gonna bite down and swallow hard |
Because I’m older now |
And I ain’t got not time to cry |
Its true |
I’m older now |
Just ain’t got not time to cry |
No time to cry |
No time to cry… |
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