[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
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