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The Saddest Song In The World

from Someday, But Not Today by Some Punk

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Once there was a young kid
Playin on the sidewalk
His friends were out of town
From behind him
He heard a soft sound
That burned right through his soul
He ran home to his mother dear,
She said hush child, dry your tears
He said ma, I’m gonna die
I say, hush child don’t you cry
You only heard
The saddest song in the world
A few years later,
He was growin up
He found himself a little girl
And he loved her,
Oh my, how he loved her
And she said,
I think maybe I love you too, I guess I don’t know
But there was another guy goin after her too
And she said, hey, I think I’ll go with you
The other guy that is,
And the kid
Laid his heart down on the street
And he played
He played, he played, he played
The saddest song
In the world
well the saddest song in the world wasn’t written for him
it was for a soldier from Vietnam
who liked to put the needle in his arm
well he was no soldier from a war long gone
he was no addict addled with no sense of right and wrong
he was just a kid
and he knew it
so he forgot
he forgot, he forgot
the saddest song in the world
well later on in his life
he was a man
had 2.3 kids, a dog, and a wife
one day he was walking down the street
he heard coins drop in a can
there was a vet in a digital camo jacket
and he looked tired
more tired than any man alive
so the kid, grown up now, he asked him
said, “whatchyou doin son”
vet sad, “v.a. got no budget,
so I’m out here in the hot sun”
and then he made a soft sound
and it burned through the kid’s soul
but different from those years before
the words crashed down
like a hammer
the music rang and clamored
like a thousand mighty winds
and he said ma,
ma where are you, I’m gonna die
someone said,
hush now,
now ain’t the time to cry
so the kid laid down
on the sidewalk
and he sang
and he sang, he sang, he sang
the saddest song in the world

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from Someday, But Not Today, released October 9, 2012

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