Lonely Boy - The Almost

He was born on a summer day, 1991

And with the slap of a hand he had landed as an only son

His mother and father said what a lovely boy

We’ll teach him what we learned, oh yes, just what we learned

We’ll dress him all poorly and we’ll send him to school

It’ll teach him how to fight, he’ll be nobody’s fool

Oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

In the summer of '99 his mother brought him a sister

But she told him that we must attend to her needs

She’s so much younger than you

Well, he ran out in the hall and he cried

Oh, how he was scared to die

When they said he was an only son

He thought he was the only one

Oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

Goodbye mother, goodbye youth

Goodbye father, I’m pushing on through

He left home on a winter day in 2009

And he hoped to find all the love he had lost in that earlier time

Well, his seek turned to love and she made him a man

She gave him a son, oh, yeah, a lovely son

They dressed him up poorly and they sent him to school

It taught him how to fight, nobody’s fool

Oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy

Oh, what a lonely boy