Rodney Crowell - Past Like A Mask lyrics

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Rodney Crowell - Past Like A Mask

I was told to be a man was build defences strong

Keep your woman in her place and she'll keep hangin' on

Now I've grown to realise my life's been filled with lies

A tread I've been hangin' on has broken in her eyes

If I could let my heart be known in spite walls so high

I might taste those bitter tears that I've never learned to cry

[Chorus 1:]

But I've got a paast like a mask

And I can see it in her face, the many years I can't erase

A broken heart I can't replace in spite of what I try

But I've got a pa-ast like a mask

And I sure took my time to understand

When I was young, not long ago, I hid my feelings well

Sometimes I let my heartaches show but I could never tell

And now I find I've been blind, insensitive and vain

Cause someone told me long ago "ignore a woman's pain"

If I could change the fool I've been, I know just what'd do

I'd give her everything I can and make all her dreams come true

[Chorus 2:]

But I've got a past like a mask

And I can see it in her eyes, the lonely nights, the endless lies

The countless time I made her cry when she was by my side

And I've got a past like a mask

And I sure took my time to understand

[Chorus 1]