A Lost And Lonely Boy
by Dave Alan Walker

A Lost And Lonely Boy

A lost and lonely boy
with nothing but his dreams
born into poverty
and a mother with collapsed vains

He watches her stick needles
between her toes
her eyes roll back
with ecstacy and pain
all he's left with is battered piano keys
on the rooms back wall

He plays those keys
to the rhythm of a rasp
his mother calls breathing
he plays those keys
for the love he should have had

This was is life
from a child to eighteen
no friends no love
just those piano keys

Then by chance
someone knocked on the door
said they'd just heard
someone playing the piano
like they'd never heard before
said they'd sign him right then and there
he never looked back
as he stepped out and closed the door

Sometimes he thinks back
to that lost and lonely boy
and thinks his life is all a dream

But then he hears Eric Clapton shout
we're on in ten minutes
and he knows it's not a dream