Father And Mother Songtext

there was a time I was happy in my life there was a time i believed i live forever there was a time when i prayed to jesus cris there was a time i had a mother it was nice nobody else could ever take the place of you nobody else could do the things that you could do nobody else i guess could hurt me like you did i didn't understand, i was just a kid oh mother, why aren't you here with me? no one else saw the things that you could see I'm trying hard to dry my tears yes father you know i'm not so free Chorus: i got to give it up find someone to love me i got to let it go find someone that i can care for i got to give it up find someone to love me i got to let it go find someone that i can care for there was a time I was happy in my life there was a time i believed i live forever there was a time when i prayed to jesus cris there was a time i had a mother it was nice oh mother, why aren't you here with me? no one else saw the things that you could see I'm trying hard to dry my tears yes father you know i'm not so free Chorus: i got to give it up find someone to love me i got to let it go find someone that i can care for i got to give it up find someone to love me i got to let it go find someone that i can care for my mother died when i was five and all i did was sit and cry i cried and cried and cried all day until the neighbors went away they couldn't take my lonelyness i couldn't take my phoniness my father had to go to work i used to think he was a jerk i didn't know his heart was broken and not another word was spoken and he became a shadow of the father i was dreaming of i made a vow that i would never need another person ever turned my heart into a cage a victim of a kind of rage i got to give it up i got to give it up i got to give it up i got to give it up Chorus: i got to give it up find someone to love me i got to let it go find someone that i can care for i got to give it up find someone to love me i got to let it go find someone that i can care for find someone that i can care for find someone that i can care for I got to give it up I got to give it up I got to give it up I got to give it up i got to let it go I got to give it up Oh mother Oh father I gotta give it up I gotta give it up I gotta give it up I gotta give it up I gotta give it up I gotta give it up I gotta give it up