Dm C G There was a time I was happy in my life Dm C G There was time I believed I'd live forever Dm C G There was a time that I prayed to Jesus Christ Dm C G There was a time I had a mother it was nice Am Dm G Oh mother why aren't you here with me Am Dm G No one else saw the things that you could see Am Dm G I'm trying hard to dry my tears Am Dm G Yes father you know I'm not so free Dm C G Nobody else would ever take the place of you Dm C G Nobody else could do the things that you could do Dm C G No one else I guess could hurt me like you did Dm C G I didn't understand I was just a kid Am Dm G Oh mother why aren't you here with me Am Dm G No one else saw the things that you could see Am Dm G I'm trying hard to dry my tears Am Dm G Yes father you know I'm not so free Am I got to give it up Dm G Find someone to love me Am I got to let it go Dm G Find someone that I can care for Am I got to give it up Dm G Find someone to love me Am I got to let it go Dm G Find someone that I can care for Am My mother died when I was five Dm G And all I did was sit and cry Am I cried and cried and cried all day Dm G Until the neighbours went away Am They couldn't take my loneliness Dm G I couldn't take their phoniness Am My father had to go to work Dm G I used to think he was a jerk Am I didn't know his heart was broken Dm G And not another word was spoken Am He became a shadow of Dm G The father I was dreaming of Am I made a vow that I would never need another person ever Dm G Turned my heart into a cage a victim of a kind of rage Am Dm G (2X) Am I've got to give it up Dm G Am Find somebody to love Dm G Find someone that I can care for Am I got to give it up Dm G I got to give it up Am I got to give it up I got to give it up Dm G I got to give it up