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Story behind the song
There have been too many.
Lyrics
This Story Goes
J. Michael Tracy (ballad)
(verse)
Once upon a lonely time
The boy did not come back to school
Never one to start a fight
Never one to break the rules
“Innocent and naive”, his teachers said
“How in hell does someone like that wind up dead?
Maybe there was something that we missed, things we never knew”
(verse)
His Mama liked to stay at home
At least that’s what they all thought
He never talked about his Paw
He wanted to be an Astronaut
His dreams were going to take him, to the sky
Find hisself some wings, so he could fly
But even dreams of innocents can die, ended by a single shot
(bridge)
Sometimes we look, but we can’t see
Buried deeply under lock and key
A child with a broken life that never heals
Right in front of you and me
(verse)
One day the old man came home drunk
Started beatin’ on his Maw
The boy jumped in to save her
For him it was the last straw
The man reached in his jacket, pulled out a gun
Before his clouded mind could think he’d killed his only son
On and on this story goes to start again
Cause he won’t be the only one
On and on this story goes to start again……
Cause he won’t be the only one
By J. Michael Tracy 6/99
