Grown Men Don't Cry   





I pulled into the shopping center  

And saw a little boy wrapped around the legs of his mother  

Like ice cream melting they embraced  

Years of bad decisions runnin' down her face  

All mornin' I'd been thinkin' my life's so hard  

And they wore everything they own, livin' in a car  

I wanted to tell him it would be ok  

But I got just got in my suburban and I drove away  

 

But I don't know why they say grown men don't cry  

I don't know why they say grown men don't cry  

 

Keep having this dream about my old man  

I'm 10 years old, and he's holding my hand  

We're talkin' on the front porch watchin' the sun go down  

But it was just a dream he was a slave to his job and he couldn't be around  

So many things I wanna say to him  

But I just placed a rose on his grave, and I talk to the wind  

 

But I don't know why they say grown men don't cry  

I don't know why they say grown men don't cry, don't cry  

 

I'm sittin' here with my kids and my wife  

And everything that I hold dear in my life  

We say grace and thank the Lord  

Got so much to be thankful for  

Then it's up the stairs and off to bed and my little girl says  

 I haven't had my story yet.   

 

And everything weighin' on my mind disappears just like that  

When she lifts her head off her pillow and says,  

 I Love You Dad   

 

I don't know why they say grown men don't cry  

I don't know why they say grown men don't cry  

And I don't know why they say grown men don't cry  

I don't know why they say grown men don't cry, don't cry