Cry If You Want To – Paul Brandt
Album: Small Towns And Big Dreams
Written by: Casey Scott
Intro: E Esus E C#m B (x2)
Cry if you want to, I won’t tell you not to
I won’t try to cheer you up, I’ll just be here if you want me
There’s no use in keeping a stiff upper lip
You can weep you can sleep you can loosen your grip
You can frown you can drown and go down with the ship
You can cry if you want you
Don’t ever apologize venting your pain
It’s something to me you don’t need to explain
I don’t need to know why I don’t think it’s insane
You can cry if you want to
The windows are closed the neighbors aren’t home
If it’s better with me then to do it alone
I’ll draw all the curtains and unplug the phone
You can cry if you want to
Instrumental: E C#m A B E C#m A B E
You can stare at the ceiling tear at your hair
Swallow your feelings and stagger and swear
You can show things and throw things and I wouldn’t care
You can cry if you want to
No I won’t make fun of you I won’t tell anyone
I won’t analyze what you do or you should have done
I won’t advise you to go and have fun
You can cry if you want to
When it’s empty and ugly and terribly sad
I can’t feel what you feel but I know it feels bad
I know that it’s real and it makes you so mad
You can cry
Cry if you want to, I won’t tell you not to
I won’t try to cheer you up, I’ll just be here if you want me
To be near you
Outro: (use the intro, then instrumental progression)
Chords:
A x02220
B x24442(bar chord) or xx4442
C#m x46654(bar chord) or xx6654
E 022100
Esus 022200

Intro D A G D A
Me and Virgil best of friend
brothers ‘til the very end
made a pact one sunny afternoon
down by cold pepper creek
Fishing holes, skippin’ rocks
down the railroad tracks we’d talk
about girls and cars and hopes and dreams
the way our lives would be
and we swore we’d never change
and it would always be the same.
Virgil met the Holy Ghost
a little younger than most
at the gilappi pentacostal
tent revival halter call
Everyone in town was there that day
Virgil gave his soul away
they were praising as I waited
outside the gospel hall
And we swore we’d never change
but it would never be the same
Cause it was later on that year
the winter that our mama died
when I told Virgil I don’t wanna hear
about love and peace inside
cause if this God you know is good
how can he allow the pain
life’s been hard enough
so why would I want to be born again
The other night me and Virgil spoke
he travels with the Holy Ghost
holding tent revivals
he’s out to seek and save
Virgil says he’s been set free
by Jesus dying on the tree
but I’m not sure what I believe
my questions still remain
Virgil says that when he prays
he asks the Lord that I’d be saved
I guess some things never change

I’m fed up with my work,And the boss is a jerk and
It feels like I’m wasting my time
In a dead end job, I’m having to rob
Peter to pay Paul a dime
Why don’t we jump in my car, Just to see how far
This old beat up rambler will drive
And trade it all in for the
Taste of tequila and lime and
Warm sunny beaches
Follow the wind where it blows
Tall palm trees greet us
Blue ocean waving hello
You could be my senorita
Oh and I’ll never let you go
Drinking cold margueritas
On the warm sunny beaches
In Mexico
Every sunny day
We could laugh at the way
We used to live nine to five
In a hammock-swing
We’ll forget everything
Nothing but love on our minds
And after siesta
We’ll have a fiesta
And party until morning-time
And when the sun comes up
we’ll be singing out ah ah ah