It's 3 a.m. and I'm at the bar
And the night outside is black like tar
And the last call still can't take me far

From wondering where you are
My mama tells me that I'm a fool
To love someone so mean and cruel

Tells me this one, he ain't good to you
But oh my heart, what can I do?


So here I stayed and prayed and I paid
The cost of loving you
Now I'm so mad, I'm so lonely and sad

Cause I lost the only love I knew

I know it's true what I've been told

That heartache makes the young grow old
But when heartache's all I got to hold
Then I'll take it, though it keeps me cold

We said words that stabbed into our spine
When you looked at me with those sad, cold, finished eyes
On a quilt we laid down all the lies,

Then Like a baby I laid down and cried.

Because here I stayed and prayed and I paid

The cost of loving you
Now I'm so mad, I'm so lonely and sad
Cause I lost the only love I knew


It's a movie we all know from start to end
Where a boy meets a boy meets a boy and it begins

A losing game where no one ever wins
A masquerade where I can't pretend
That I don't know what is going on

When you call me up and tell me that you were wrong
But mark my words, every single one
By the morning I'll be gone


Because here I stayed and prayed and I paid
The cost of loving you

Now I'm so mad, I'm so lonely and sad
Cause I lost the only love I knew