No Time to Cry

[Verse 1]

My father died a year ago today

The rooster started crowin' when they carried Dad away

There beside my mother, in the living room, I stood

With my brothers and my sisters knowing Dad was gone for good

Well, I stayed at home just long enough

To lay him in the ground and then I

Caught a plane to do a show up north in Detroit town

Because I'm older now and I've got no time to cry

[Chorus]

I've got no time to look back, I've got no time to see

The pieces of my heart that have been ripped away from me

And if the feeling starts to comin', I've learned to stop 'em fast

Because I don't know if I let 'em go, they might not wanna pass

And there's just so many people trying to get me on the phone

And there's bills to pay and songs to play

And a house to make a home

I guess I'm older now and I've got no time to cry

[Verse 2]

I can still remember when I was a girl

But so many things have changed so much here in my world

I remember sittin' on the front yard when an ambulance went by

And just listening to those sirens, I would break down and cry

But now I'm walking and I'm talking

Doing just what I'm supposed to do

Working overtime to make sure that I don't come unglued

I guess I'm older now, I've got no time to cry

[Chorus]

I've got no time to look back, I've got no time to see

The pieces of my heart that have been ripped away from me

And if the feeling starts to comin', I've learned to stop 'em fast

Because I don't know if I let 'em go, they might not wanna pass

And there's just so many people trying to get me on the phone

And there's bills to pay and songs to play

And a house to make a home

I guess I'm older now and I've got no time to cry

[Verse 3]

I sit down on the sofa and I watch the evening news

There's a half-a-dozen tragedies from which to pick and choose

The baby that was missing was found in a ditch today

And there's bombs a-flying and people dying not so far away

And I'll take a beer from the refrigerator

And go sit out in the yard and with a cold one in my hand

I'm going to bite down and swallow hard

Because I'm older now, I've got no time to cry

[Chorus]

I've got no time to look back, I've got no time to see

The pieces of my heart that have been ripped away from me

And if the feeling starts to comin', I've learned to stop 'em fast

Because I don't know if I let 'em go, they might not wanna pass

And there's just so many people trying to get me on the phone

And there's bills to pay and songs to play

And a house to make a home

I guess I'm older now, I've got no time to cry

[Outro]

I guess I'm older now

I just ain't got no time to cry

No time to cry

No time to cry

No time to cry