WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME

My Mother was always a pretty girl

She was married at sixteen

My Father was her second Husband

He died when I was three

The next man my Mother married

I will remember and revile

All the promises he made to me

Were dismissed with an evil smile

~~~*Chorus*~~~

Mister why don’t you love me

What did I do this time

I wasn't talking loud

I wasn't making a sound

I did nothing this time

Why don’t you love me

When you know I could love you

And that all I ever want is

For someone to love me too

~~*~~

My new Father didn't last long

She said he was a Mama’s boy

I got down on my hands and knees

And prayed her next would want a little boy

But when I ran out to meet him

And he coldly looked at me

I knew that I’d been praying 

For something that could never be

~~~*Chorus*~~~

Mister why don’t you love me

What did I do this time

I wasn't talking loud

I wasn't making a sound

I did nothing this time

Why don’t you love me

When you know I could love you

And that all I ever want is

For someone to love me too

~~*~~

I grew up making trouble

I found pain lasts a good long time

Bitterness and resentment 

They were good friends of mine

As I sit here with my memories

It wouldn't seem quite real to me

If it weren't for that teary-eyed little boy

That cries out each night in my dreams…

~~~*Chorus*~~~

Mister why don’t you love me

What did I do this time

I wasn't talking loud

I wasn't making a sound

I did nothing this time

Why don’t you love me

When you know I could love you

And that all I ever want is

For someone to love me too

~~*~~

Oh…I knew they loved my Mother

I could see it in their eyes

If they would have cared enough to look

They would have seen the same in mine…

~~~*Repeat Chorus*~~~

Teresa Lynn Johnson
Wrdspnr@aol.com
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