The Reds

I was born across the street, yeah

From a place they call The Blues

And everything that people tell me

Always seems to be bad news

My poor mother 'fore she died

She said "Things won't ever change

You were born a loser, a loser

And all your life you played a game"

I would listen, and that's why, why

I gotta cry (Cry, cry, cry, cry)

That's why I gotta cry (Cry)

And everything I thought was right

Always turned out to be so wrong

I had a pretty woman, yeah

Hmm, she said her love for me was strong

But I woke up one morning, yeah

Tears running down my face

And a letter laying by my bedside

It read: "Jody done took your place"

That's why, whoa-oh-oh, Lord

Feel like I wanna cry (Cry, cry, cry, cry)

Somebody else oughta help me say, yeah, yeah

Oh, oh-oh, makes you feel like you wanna die

Sometime, sometimes I feel like I wanna cry

Oh, but I call myself a man

And a man ain't supposed to cry

A man don't do nothin' like that

A man ain't supposed to lie

Oh, oh-oh, but I just can't help myself

I just can't help myself

I can't help it

Sometimes, late in the midnight hours

I have to cry a little bit

I say I have to cry a little bit

I don't wanna, I don't wanna

I don't wanna cry

But the tears keep running from my eyes

I tell myself I ain't gon' cry no more

No, no, baby