You Don't Know What It's Like

The Early November

(You don't know what it was like, blah blah blah blah.) 

See you don't know what it's like to be a man in the world 
And be scared to lose everything. 
See you don't know what it's like to build a life from nothing 
And be scared to lose everything. 

I bet that's not what you said back then. 
And don't sing your blues to me. 
You have no right... 

By the time I was old enough to run, 
Momma couldn't move and Dad was gone 
So she sat me in a room alone to watch TV, 
By the time I went to school I had no friends. 
I didn't even know how to play with kids 
They would all run around, and I would just sit alone. 
And do you know what it's like to cry yourself to sleep tonight at the age of six, 
And seven 
And eight 
And nine 
And ten 
And eleven 
And twelve.