Dear Loretta

Dear Loretta
Why do you hang your head down so low
I wish you would grow
I've seen pictures
Of your life in the next and I don't like them
Any more than you

So just hold true
We'll see this through

I've held sorrow
For as long as I can see in the past
I hope this won't last
Don't grow cold now
For it's warm out there just come in
You're wearing thin

Don't grow long
I fear you're gone

Now you are wanting and I am waiting for something better to come along
If we were younger we'd not be here trying to make it on our own
Now I am lonely and I am wandering looking for some place to roam
If you'd only try dear we'd not be here trying to make it on our own

On our own own own
On our own own own

So now I am left here cold and lonely lost without a single friend
And it seems the time's near for all we've waited to come back down here and lay to rest
In all the years that there's been silence in those times I must confess
That if I stay here too much longer I will be out on my own

On my own own own
On my own own own

Now I am hoping that someday maybe you will see that it's all for the best
If you cannot try dear then I'll just stay here and we'll lay this heart to rest