Twenty one

Sometimes I don't even move a muscle Baby when you lie awake at night TWENTY-ONE Was at night when they called the little sheppard boy made him leave his sheep Was a night wind howling on a wild dog growling Or a bird that flew all he never knew Were doing to his darkest sleep

When the snow played a trick on the little sheppard boy Must've drove him blind From the wildest while to the night of knives 'Til they could not see what had come to be all the lovers that he leave behind

CHORUS: Twenty one - His eyes were glowing Who gave him the gun his guts were showing Setting sun, we wanna know, where did he go

'Cause he was gonna lead us all outta this wilderness Was that too much to ask His sister and his brother his father and his mother And if we sentence him to a chance so slim that he had to wear his own death mask

By his own hand he died the little sheppard boy no one there to blame But he will carry the burden of the lie that he left hurting No one heard the shot but believe it or not Nothing's ever gonna be the same

CHORUS

Thirty years ago it happened I ain't over it yet The love of a poor thing was lost but you never forget I try to imagine the sound of his voice or what he might have said to himself when he made that choice

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