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