Marybeth D'Amico

jimmy 5:13

Jimmy says he don’t know how it started
his daddy says he don’t know how it’ll end
he woke up one bright morning broken-hearted
and feeling like he lost his only friend

now most days he just sits there by the window
watching people pass and cars go by
when you don’t expect it, he’ll flash a grin though
and when that fades he usually starts to cry

Jimmy how can I help you?
what can I do or say?
you feel that life has got no hope
that every dawn is grey
that every moment’s like the next
and then they slip away
well sometimes James I feel the same damn way

Granny says the young ones have no center
they got no real reason to complain
she lived through two world wars, when soldiers entered
they lit a match and set her town aflame

Mama says it’s the pills that make him crazy
the doctors, they don’t really give a damn
his uncle says the boy is just plain lazy
he should get up and take it like a man

CHORUS
me, I do my part by acting kind now
I make Jimmy tea or stroke his head
sometimes all my efforts soothe his mind, though
other times he wishes he were dead