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Mother And Father

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Mother And Father

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There was a time I was happy in my life

There was time I believed I'd live forever

There was a time that I prayed to Jesus Christ

There was a time I had a mother, it was nice

Nobody else would ever take the place of you

Nobody else could do the things that you could do

No one else, I guess, could hurt me like you did

I didn't understand, I was just a kid

Bridge:

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 [2x]:

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 time I believed I'd live forever

There was a time that I prayed to Jesus Christ

There was a time I had a mother, it was nice

Bridge:

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 [2x]:

I got to give it up

Find someone to love me

I got to let it go

Find someone that I can care for

Spoken:

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 loneliness

I couldn't take their 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

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 gotta give it up

I gotta give it up

I gotta give it up

Chorus:

I've got to give it up

Find someone to love me

I've 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 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 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

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