Bill McCai

Album: Magic and Medicine (2003)
Charted: 23
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  • His family taught him right from wrong
    With local tales and children's songs
    Sunday school was his shelter
    With his friends Joe and Walter
    Now those days seem far away
    An empty swing where he once played
    Now Bill's grown so fat and bald
    He never thought that he'd grow old

    And every day when he gets the train
    Looks out the window and thinks in vain
    If only I could be that boy again

    His sales job gets him down
    Same old faces same old sounds
    Heart attacks, orthopedic backs
    Documents in labeled racks
    His wife can't stand the sight of him
    With his routine glass of gin
    She makes his lunch of processed ham
    And waits in for the meter man

    And every day when he gets the train
    Looks out the window and thinks in vain
    If only I could be that boy again
    If only he could be that boy again

    Another day another gin
    His kids don't even notice him
    Something different about his face
    His happy smile seems out of place
    His family gathered around for tea
    Eyes fixed on their new telly
    Newsflash came, then it saidâ?¦
    Bill McCai was just found dead

    No more windows, no more trains
    Hung himself out in the rain
    Now he'll never be that boy again
    And we say by-bye Bill McCai Writer/s: JAMES SKELLY
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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