The Last Time I Cried

The last time I cried I was sitting home and it was deep in the night Staring at the shadows and the flickering lights Giving all that I had To take them away Giving all that I had To make them pay The last time I cried I could see the people, long ago in the rain Waiting as the soldiers put them all on a train And the hands on the bar The eyes full of tears And the word is the same For a thousand years Eli Eli Lama, oh, Lord You have forsaken me Eli Eli Lama, oh, Lord You have forsaken me The last time I cried I could not believe it, when I held on a face Staring at a soldier with his gun in the rain It was the face of a child My child here asleep And the soldier who smiled The man was me Eli Eli Lama, oh, Lord You have forsaken me Eli Eli Lama, oh, why Have you forsaken me? Eli Eli Lama, oh, Lord You have forsaken me The last time I cried The last time I cried The last time I cried The last time I cried The last time I cried The last time I cried The last time I cried The last time I cried The last time