Six fifteen on a Sunday night, There's a man with a gun and he wants to die, Didn't want to hurt anybody else Wants to stop the pain that's in his head, A cry for help He took a gun in his hand, Extreme actions of a desperate man The black dog was with him wherever he'd go, Lost his wife his job and they took his home . He took a gun in his hand A sign of a desperate man A cry for help, a cry for help The only way out all he could see A man on the edge of insanity. Didn't wanna hurt the hostage he held, Shoot me in the head to the cops he yelled, Eight fifteen on a Sunday night There's a man on the ground not making a sound, Cops gonna take him to a prison cell, There gonna take him straight back to hell He took a gun in his hand A sign of a desperate man A cry for help, a cry for help, A cry for help You can't kick a man when he's down When you don't know what's going on inside A cry for help, a cry for help, A cry for help, a cry for help,