Did you ever want to cry but you didn't know just why   Did you ever sit up all night long   Just listening to that same old song   The one they played when she said nothing could go wrong      Right, I know you did oh, you kid   Did you really think that she'll be true   Wasn't that rather naive of you?   And now she's dropped you like a worn-out shoe      She's got you drinking gin and you know that's a sin   You go honky-tonking every night   You get drunk and then you start a fight   I know that you think that it's alright      Wrong, it's not the way to live you only get what you give   You can live your life just as you please   But, when you lie with dogs, you gotta get fleas   And now she's brought you down to your knees      Arms that used to hold you tight you miss them in the middle of night   You burned a candle at both ends   Now it's too late, too late to make amends   You've even lost your old time friends      Enemies glad to see you down people, they don't want you hanging round   Did you ever want to cry but you didn't know just why   Right, I know you did, wrong, it's not the way to live   Did you ever want to cry