Punchline

A long winter and a red hot summer

I don't remember very much about that year

What I recall is a fear of falling in love

While I was

I gave everything I had to my lover

It's no wonder people felt that I disappeared

And at the end of the day all I had for myself

Was my own lonesome tears

But I made her happy

And did that gladly

But oh, it don't mean a thing

Yeah all that's over now

Me and my sister went to Arizona

Seeing our mom while she was fighting her disease

And doing what everybody said she needed

So she could come home

And it was late in the night when I called you

One in the morning right outside of a motel

Just checking in to tell you I was scared

And that I felt

You didn't love me

You said you love me, honey

Oh it don't mean a thing

Yeah all that's over

Now when I dream all I see

Is you being untrue to me

Telling lies, shaking hands

Having laughs over and over again

The punchline of a joke, I am

Oh it don't mean a thing

Yeah all that's over

But it don't mean a thing

Yeah all that's over

But it don't mean a thing