I Lost the Only Love I Knew

Hank Williams Sr. · Songbook [1991]

You ask me why my hearts so sad

And why the teardrops fill my eyes

A heart can't sing that's filled with pain

How can it laugh when it cries.



Chorus:

I saw my dreams all fade and die

Like castles in the blue

Each dawn will bring more tears and pain

I've lost the only love I knew.



Oh, life for me is useless now

It seems so empty and blue

There's no more use to try again

I fail in everything I do.



Chorus:

It's hard to know you'll never have

The one you love so true

While the world's asleep I'll lay and cry

I lost the only love I knew...