There was a time I was happy in my life   There was a 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      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      I got to give it up   Find someone to love me   I 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      There was a time I was happy in my life   There was a 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      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      I got to give it up   Find someone to love me   I 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      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 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   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've 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 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 give it up   I got to give it up   I got to give it up