There was a time I was happy in my life
There was a time I believed I´d live forever
There was a time I prayed to Jesus Christ
There was a time I had a mother
It was nice

Nobody else would ever take the place of you
Nobody else could do the things that you could do
No one else I guess could hurt me like you did
I didn´t understand, I was just a kid

Oh mother, why aren´t you here with me
No one else saw the things that you could see
I´m trying hard to dry my tears
Yes father, you know I´m not so free

{Refrain:}
I´ve got to give it up
Find someone to love me
I´ve got to let it go
Find someone that I can care for
I´ve got to give it up
Find someone to love me
I´ve got to let it go
Find someone that I can care for

There was a time I was happy in my life
There was a time I believed I´d live forever
There was a time I prayed to Jesus Christ
There was a time I had a mother
It was nice

Oh mother, why aren´t you here with me
No one else saw the things that you could see
I´m trying hard to dry my tears
Yes father, you know I´m not so free

{au Refrain}

My mother died when I was five
And all I did was sit and cry
I cried and cried and cried all day
Until the neighbors went away

They couldn´t take my loneliness
I couldn´t take their phoniness
My father had to go to work
I used to think he was a jerk

I didn´t know his heart was broken
And not another word was spoken
He became a shadow of
The father I was dreaming of

I made a vow that I would never need
Another person ever
Turned my heart into a cage
A victim of a kind of rage

I gotta give it up {x2}

{Refrain:}
Find someone that I can care for
Find someone that I can care for

I´ve got to give it up {x5}
I´ve got to let it go
I´ve got to give it up
Oh mother, oh father
I´ve got to give it up

I gotta give it up {x6}