STEVE EARLE lyrics - Cry Night After Night

(Stacey Earle, Mark Stuart, Steve Earle)



I almost hate to go back home

Somebody's died every time I've been gone

I ain't saying I don't want to know

Just that it brings me down so low



I was needing more out of life

I forgot how to be your wife

Everybody's settlin' for settlin' down

Hear the jingle of the chains rattling around



I never really gave much thought

I'm sure its my own fault

I just figured after years gone by

All them tears would have run dry



I go out night after night

And I wonder if I'm treating myself right

And I think about the ones I left behind

When I cry night after night



Here's to the ones who worked all along

Living in fear of being alone

Well I started out early in life

I made mine and I knew I



Could never really go back home

That's the same as being alone

Sure, I could always turn it around

That'd be the same as shooting me down