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?

So I watch my momma from the back of the van

She drove along, and having seven kids

Must have been hard, but daddy couldn't stay out of the bar

It's a crying game, seeing him in prison on Christmas day

Twenty years later still such a shame to have a broken heart at such a young age

Now it's all the same, it's a crying game

I missed the call and woke to find my brother was gone

That's when I lost my mind at eighteen years old

Wondering how life could be so cold

But we came together, like never before

All my brothers and sisters kept momma at shore til we lost another

It's hard to know just 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

Now it's all the same, it's a crying game

Living and loving gets me through the pain

Don't take for granted a soul or a day

Anywhere I'm going it's crazy to think

That there's a million other people out there playing

Crying game

There's no winning and no one to blame

Life is fragile and can slip away

And let me tell you when it does, it's such a shame

But it's all the same, it's a crying game