Boy In Pain

Boy In Pain
2005 Julie Christensen Stone Cupid Music BMI

So alone.
Only one in the house
Awake in the night
Searching the Stars
For some kind of clue
That would
Make it all right.
There's a quiet trouble
In the perfect score.
In a brilliant muddle,
You look for more.
And I can't forget
The Boy in Pain.

Far Away, misery is no stranger
To a soldier tonight.
Scanning the sky,
There's heartache and danger
And nothing's all right.
They'd left him at the junction
And waved goodbye.
Were they missing something
Behind his eyes?
Well, I can't forget
The Boy in Pain. (2x)

And he came back from a place
Whose name he could not say
And the mother leveled her complaint:
"I gave you a good boy,
And you sent me back--a murderer!"*
There's a quiet trouble.

A mother's eyes
Can see from a mile away
In the dark.
Heavens above!
There must be some reason
he'd landed so hard.
There's a quiet trouble
And a violent war
In his silent bubble,
You look for more
And you can't forget
The Boy in Pain

There's a quiet Trouble.

*quote from a Seymour Hersh article after the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam