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Young man at the station
With a bag packed full of his fears
He didn’t know where he was going
He was just running from the years
He made one last call to his old man
Before he was ready to roam
He said, “You don’t got no reason to worry, pa,
I’ll be fine on my own”
And he told him,
I didn’t mean to disappoint you, pa
I was just tryin to get you to hear
I didn’t mean to disappoint you
I was just tryin to get outta here
Molly, with her red dress
She was the talk of the town
We’ll, Johnny, he was going to have her
Didn’t bother askin, didn’t want to get turned down
She wasn’t going to have the child
Of the man who had taken her pride
But her mamma, she was a good old girl
Wouldn’t look her in the eye
And she told her,
I didn’t mean to disappoint you, ma
I was just tryin to get you to hear
I didn’t mean to disappoint you
I was just tryin to get outta here
And we all want to help somebody else
And we we can all hear you cryin out for help
Sometimes, it’s so loud
We can’t hear ourselves
His parents went down to the coroner
They said they could ID that boy with their help
You see, the 27 people he’d gunned down had died
Before he turned the gun on himself
His momma sat there and held his hands
She brushed his hair from his brow
And with a bloodstained finger she wiped away tears
And said, “Boy, your at peace now.”
And they told him,
We didn’t mean to disappoint you, son
We were just tryin to get you to hear
We didn’t mean to disappoint you
We were just tryin to get you outta here
And we all want to help somebody else
And we can all hear you cryin out for help
Sometimes, it’s so loud
We can’t hear ourselves.