We Don't Cry In This Town

They told us early, boy, keep your head down

Keep your mouth shut, keep your fist tight

How the tears get you buried not safe

We don't cry in this town

Daddy said a man don't bend in bricks in silence

Shake it off, walk it out, don't show the violence

Bloody knuckles, busted lips, pride like a crown

Learn real quick, we don't fly around this town

Mama prayed, but she'd be quiet at night

Crossed on the wall, but no room for fright

You bleed alone, you carry it down

Yeah, we don't cry in this town

Keep it in, lock it down

We learn to swallow fire, learn to call it strength

Learn that asking for help is the fastest way

To get your name dragged through the dirt

And the fans dragged through the dirt

We don't cry in this town, we just drink and numb

Shake hands with the dark till the damage is done

We bury our brothers and say, keep it strong

Say he's in a better place, then we move the fuck on

We don't cry in this town, we just grin and grind

Turn scars into jokes, turn pain into time

God forgive us if we ever break down

But we don't cry

In this town

Don't cry

Not here

Saw a man lose his boy to a county road

He stood tall at the grave like his heart wasn't broke

Hands shaking bad, but his face stayed stoned

That's how they teach you to survive back home

Another buddy drank himself halfway gone

Said the war never left when the uniforms off

He asked God once, then he shut it down

Yeah, we don't cry in this town

Don't ask

Don't tell

We call it being mad, call it growing up fast

Funny how the hardest ones are the first ones laid flat

Oh

We don't cry in this town, we just carry the weight

Smile through hell, call it fate

Teach our sons how to choke it down

Say there's just life in this town

We don't cry in this town, we just bleed out slow

Bottle it up, never let it show

If it kills us young or it turns us mean

Hell, at least they'll say we were mean, we were mean

Maybe that's the lie they sold us

Wrapped in pride and dust

Maybe strength ain't silence

Maybe silence is what fucked us

Say it

Say it out loud

Yeah

We don't cry in this town, but God knows we should

Carry crosses made of oak and misunderstood

If tears are weakness, then we've all been strong too long

And that strength's been killing us all along

We don't cry in this town, but tonight I might

If that makes me broken, I'll take that fight

I'm done dying slow just to fit the crown

I don't give a damn

I'm crying now

Crying now

Crying now

They can keep the rules, they can keep the lies

If feeling makes me weak, then bury me alive