Did You Ever Want To Cry - The Mamas & The Papas

Did you ever want to cry,

But you didn't know just why?

Did you ever sit up all night long

Just listening to that same old song

The one they played when she said

Nothin' could go wrong?

Right, I know you did, oh, you kid

Did you really think that she'd be true?

Wasn't that rather naive of you?

And now she'd dropped you like a worn-out shoe.

She's got you drinking gin

And you know that's a sin

You go honky-tonkin' every night

You get drunk and then you start a fight

I know that you think that it's alright

Wrong, it's not the way to live

You only get what you give!

You can live your life just as you please

But, when you lie with dogs, you gotta get fleas

And now she's brought you down to your knees

Arms that used to hold you tight

You miss them in the middle of night

You burned a candle at both ends

Now it's too late... too late to make amends

You've even lost your old time friends.

Enemies glad to see you down

People, they don't want you hangin' 'round

Did you ever want to cry,

But you didn't know just why?

Right, I know you did

Wrong, it's not the way to live

Did you ever want to cry...