Cry Lyrics

When you're a baby they're

Distressed when you cry

They can't wait to find out

What's wrong

Make you alright again

Then you jump off the

Bleachers break your ankle

They dry your tears tell you

You're so grown up

They're so proud

Then daddy dies you cry and

Cry, but no one seems alarmed

That makes you human they

Say just some interest

On the loan of love

Then the kids come there's no

Sleep for 5 whole years

You cry at the commercials

Cause you're falling apart

They say he's a softie, just

A big bear with a heart of gold

And you wake up after another

Two hours and

Play the part again

Some silent stoic figure

Growing inside

And then you don't cry for

Thirty years

A casing like steel around

The vulnerable heart that

Turned to granite

In your forties

And all the parts that were you

All the cells have grown anew

There's nothing left of the baby

Child young man or adult

Then you're old

It seems to happen overnight

They ask for the seniors card

The most beautiful women talk

To you like you're special

And when the

Breaking happens

You remember how the face

Scrunches up

Brings back memories

Of lost loves

Death and child like wonder

And nobody cares

When an old man cries

It makes them uncomfortable

Diverting their eyes

Never asking questions, never

Offer a kleenex

Want to get out of the room

Find someplace more scenic

Think you might be a lunatic

When an old man cries, they

Wish it would stop

But they're not doing nothing

They know what's coming

They'd rather not see it