There was a Boy

There was a boy
 Playing on a swing
 Deep in love with life
 Loving everything
 And he'd speak to God
 When all alone
 Making deals with God
 'Bout his dreams and hopes
 When the night would fall
 And he'd lie in bed
 Listening to the tunes
 Playing in his head
 And the boy made a wish,
 Prayed to God up high
 "Let me write a song
 Makes the whole world cry
 Let me write a song
 So tender, sad, and sweet
 The kind of song
 Drops men to their knees."
 Nowhere near a man
 He didn't understand...
 That to write a song
 Makes the whole world cry
 Have to hold the hand
 Of a friend who dies
 Hear your brother curse your name
 Watch your mother fade away
 While crooks steal your gold
 Suffer years being alone
 Nowhere near a man
 He didn't understand...
 That to write a song
 Makes the whole world cry
 Have to fall in love
 Then be denied
 Meet hopeless kids
 Raised in cruel neglect
 Hear animals scream
 Tortured half to death
 There was a boy
 Prayed to God up high
 "Let me write a song
 Makes the whole world cry
 Let me write a song
 Tender, sad, and sweet
 The kind of song
 Drops men to their knees."
 If I could reach that boy
 Before it gets too late
 Warn him there are wishes
 You should never make
 But that boy was me
 And it's far too late
 Wrote this song in tears
 Wrote this song in pain
 And now I'm a man
 And now I understand
 So torn up inside
 Just want to cry
 I want to cry... cry... cry
 Oh, God, I want to cry
 I want to cry