It Was You

"It Was You" is the 11th track in the Rare Americans (Album)

Lyrics
[Verse 1: Dad]

Time flew by so quickly

Life was tickety-boo, didn't bat an eye

The bucks, the change

The weeks, the daily grind

Seventeen years young I lost my son

I lost my son

I fake being positive

Everything they tell you makes no difference to me

Best medicine, best doctors

Best efforts round the clock

[Chorus 1: Dad]

God why did you do this to me?

God why did you do this to me?

A feat you can't conceive

A loss you can't believe

A pain you can't relieve

[Verse 2: Dad]

Insanely unfair

Beyond compare

Family's not the same

Holes and gaps and pain

Irreversible stains

Thirty years of hard work down the drain

A head full of gray

Pounding rain

It just keeps coming in waves

It just keeps coming in waves

[Chorus 2: Dad]

God why did you do this to me?

God why did you do this to me?

I lived by the good book

My word meant something when I shook

I feel like they're all crooks

Cancer devils, filthy hooks

My son, he gave me one last look

[Bridge: Son]

You aren't supposed to bury your kid

The burden I carry I barely keep hid

[Dad]

Where do I go from here?

I'm overwrought with fears

I just want to drink twenty fucking beers!

[Son]

But that won't help and that won't mend ya

Have some hope that you can lend

[Dad]

I'm barely coping, tiring to pretend

I'm fucking mad at the universe!

I'm beyond bewildered

[Son]

I have a gaping fucking wound!

[Dad]

I'm immeasurably confused!

[Outro: Son and dad]

If there was one thing in this cold world

I could have chosen not to lose

It was you, you, you

It was you, you, you

If there's one thing in this cold world

I could have chosen not to lose

It was you, you, you

It was you