| Looking out my window pane | |
| Sitting by the door alone | |
| She's left me once again | |
| Not sure when she comes back home | |
| It's an every night affair | |
| With someone new she says | |
| I've lost my taste for toys | |
| I bring joy to little boys | |
| She puts on a brand new face | |
| Her baby blues and long white lace | |
| She turns to hug and hold me tight | |
| Whatever soothes me in my fright | |
| She's gonna soon be leaving town | |
| With some other man she's found | |
| And tells me I'm a big boy now | |
| And we will need a little [Incomprehensible] | |
| Mother, can't you see what I need? | |
| Mother, can't you hear when I plead? | |
| Broken hearts and broken dreams | |
| Are what I've made my life, it seems | |
| Little children soon grow old | |
| So that's what I'm taught and told | |
| Can't explain the pains I hide | |
| No matter how I try and try | |
| Everything I do seems wrong | |
| Ever since the day I was born | |
| Mother, can't you see what I need? | |
| Mother, can't you hear when I plead? Yeah | |
| Wipe the tears away from my face | |
| As I turned and walked from that place | |
| Leave my past behind without a trace | |
| Looking back I'm older now | |
| Seems I might have cried too loud | |
| It took too long to see | |
| I was the one and you set me free | |
| Some people say I'm looking good | |
| And for my age I really should | |
| I'm just an old man on the brink | |
| And maybe that's the way that they think |