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Men Don't Cry

from DanMingo by Steve Swindells

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When you hold your cards close to your chest
you're at best a bag of nerves.
Then you take a shot at those who care,
with the anger you reserve.

If you're critical of everything
then you need to look at you.
It's a sure-fire way to feel alone
if you don't give up the blues.

Men don't cry, they just fly away,
to a lonely place that's cold and hard and dry
Men don't cry, they just rue the day,
then carry on just staring at the sky.
Bye and bye - it's just water from the soul,
you can look into the fire and feel you're gifted.
When you cry - you are climbing from a hole,
you're releasing all the hurt and then you're lifted...
Men don't cry. No. Men don't cry.

You have something in you, buried deep:
it's the need to show affection.
So you act like you don't need to show
what you feel about connections.

There is someone out there with a plan,
there is something that you need.
The child is father to the man,
but the sun will never bleed.

Men don't cry, they just fly away,
to a lonely place that's cold and hard and dry
Men don't cry, they just rue the day,
then carry on just staring at the sky.
Bye and bye.

Words and music © Steve Swindells.

credits

from DanMingo, released January 16, 2021
Drums: Jon Moss. Bass: Winston Blissett. Guitar: Jerry Richards. Keyboards and vocals: Steve Swindells.

Recorded at Cabin Studios, Coventry, 2003.

Produced by Alf Hardy and Steve Swindells.

Words and music © Steve Swindells.

Photo of SS on a boat at dawn off Koh Samui (after an all-night fishing trip - we caught nothing, but had the best time!), Thailand in 2003, by SM. © Steve Swindells

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