And this hope That keep me holding on That makes me carry on You can never give up She said, "Son there'll be times when the tides are high And the boat may be rocky, you can cry Just never give up

Let my heart go Mama, let my heart go Never I ask of you But never I gave But you gave me your emptiness that I'll take to my grave Let your son grow Or let this heart be still So let this heart be still Mama she has taught me well

No time for wasting away I never bite off more than I could chew We're breaking up the city But then she came and bit me But then she bit my leg She said don't want to work I want to play and live my life like it was Sunday The only problem is that

She knew from the start Deep down in her heart That she and Tommy were worlds apart But her mother said, "Never mind, your part Is to be what you'll be" The crowd went crazy Outside the house Mr. Simpson announced That Sally couldn't go to the meeting He

Pop a top again I just got time for one more round Set 'em up my friends Then I'll be gone Then you can let some other fool sit down I'd like for you to listen to a joke I heard today From a woman who said she was through and calmly walked away I tried

Shudlee boop boo woodlee diddlee ooh, zeen On the intercom, Rosie tell me to come She did have a son 'Cause she didn't have a daughter She said the lift doesn't work Run up the stairs and come And if you don't come quick You not gonna see your son And I

She was like, oh my God, this is my song She was like, come here boy, I wanna dance 'Fore I said a word, she was takin' my hand And she said, play it again, play it again, play it again And I said, play it again, play it again, play it again I've been

What tonight looks like Yeah, what my baby told me Oh, what my baby told me She said "I likes my big daddy, but I'm crazy about his Pontiac" We gon' drive out on the highway, turn the bright lights on Oh, driving on the highway, and he cut the bright

She lied to you, lied to me She said she didn’t have no man She told me she was all alone She said just to give her a page Raised her kids the very best she can (She was loving me) She tried to live a double life She thought that loving me was cool She

And experience robs me of hope Without thinking of them I said there's two kinds of men in this world and you're neither of them And his fist Cut the smoke I had an eighth of a second to wonder if he got the joke And in the car