Middle Child

Middle Child - Daniel Romano

I was left alone

A long time ago

By my mother

Who I never got to know

Faded memories of my life

Have been washed in whiskey nights

And I'm living at the bottom of the bottle

I've spent my life

On a bar stool all alone

Never knowing

Why she sent me from my home

Was there something wrong with me

That no one else could see

What's the reason

Only I got turned away

Mama please tell me why

You would leave just me behind

You sent me off

And then you went and have my brothers

Before me a little girl

And they're the center of your world

Mama tell me

Why'd you leave the middle child

I should have gone back home

And ask her to her face

But my lines become due much of a disgrace

And I got the news today

Saying mama passed away

So I'll never know the reason I'm alone

Mama please tell me why

You would leave just me behind

You sent me off

And then you went and have my brothers

Before me a little girl

And they're the center of your world

Mama tell me

Why'd you leave the middle child

Mama tell me

Why'd you leave the middle child