Crying Game

Woke up to snow
It's Christmas again
But you're still not home
Got thrown in the pen
And I'm six years old
Sitting here thinking why am I always alone?

Till I watched my mama
From the back of the van
As she drove along
And heaven said and gives my starving heart
But Daddy couldn't stay out of the bar

It's a crying game
Seeing him in prison now on Christmas Day
Twenty years later and such a shame
To have a broken heart at such a young age
But now it's all the same
It's a crying game

I missed the call
And woke up to find
My brother was gone
That's when I lost my mind
And at eighteen years old
Wondering how life could be so cold?

But we came together
Like never before
All my brothers and sisters
Kept Mama assured
Till we lost another
It's hard to think what to think no more

It's a crying game
To have to put my brothers in their graves
Life ain't perfect but it's such a shame
They left behind the stories that they never made
And now it's all the same
It's a crying game

Living lovin' gets me through the pain
Taking for granted is so ordain
Anywhere I'm going it's crazy to think
That there are a million other people playing
Crying game
There's no winning and no one to blame
Life is fragile and can slip away
And when it does let me tell you it's such a shame
It's all the same
It's a crying game