When it's ear-ly in the morning that's the time, that's the time that I feel so lonely I wake and hold my arms out For the lady, for the lady that I'll see no more She was taken from my life And I'll never, no I'll never, ever, ever see her face no more I tried to make the children understand but they just see me cry not like a man home is where I lost her I tried to make the children understand but they just see me cry not like a man home is where I lost her Please, please, please, why'd she have to die it's these nights when I'm alone I wonder why Lord, oh yeah, I wonder why