You know on every pay day She'd be standing around the landing crying You know love make you do things you don't want to do Your little trouble is coming home some day You know I had a job on the levee I had a good looking woman who lived in Hughes I had

She's out of my life And it cuts like a knife It's out of my hands And I don't know whether to laugh or cry I don't know whether to live or die To think for two years she was here And I took her for granted I was so cavalier Now the way that it stands

In my heaven In my heaven we hurt no one No lying, crying, or dying young No one's lonely, no one's scared And anyone is welcome there In my heaven there ain't no lawyers Don't need names on dotted lines Folks do business like they oughta A good firm

She only gets that way with me When I am all she needs She ain't shy She's outspoken boy She always speaks her mind Except those quiet little moments And I hold her tenderly She don't cry Some how she seems to keep it all inside

The sky is crying, Can you see the tears roll down the street. I my baby early one morning She was walking on down the street I got a real, real fine feeling That my baby she don't love me no more I've been looking for my baby And I've been wondering

I'm gonna rock you Rockabye don't bother cry No one's ever gonna hurt you, love I'm gonna give you all of my love Rockabye baby, don't you cry Somebody's got you She tells him "ooh love" Nobody matters like you (stay up there, stay up there) She tells

All I know is grind (Grind) Wonder why the Lord steady sendin' me blessings, I don't know why (Don't know why) Mama thanked me for her place And looked me in my face and then she started cryin' (Started cryin') My talent take me different places I can

Eighteen years had come and gone For mama they flew by But for me they drug on and on We were loading up that Chevy Both tryin' not to cry Mama kept on talking Putting off goodbye Then she took my hand and said "Baby, don't forget

The sky is crying, Can you see the tears roll down the street. I my baby early one morning She was walking on down the street I got a real, real fine feeling That my baby she don't love me no more I've been looking for my baby And I've been wondering

Push me to the edge All my friends are dead I don't really care if you cry Should've saw the way she looked me in my eyes She said baby I am not afraid to, die On the real, you should've never lied All my friends are dead (yeah) You alright I'm alright