You held me all night long, my little shivering hands

You were a butterfly but as steely as a Southern man

You didn't stop the bleed but said it's okay

To need a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful day

Oh Roy, I heard about the boys, say it isn't true

I heard in Birmingham they flew right over you

And I've come from the future with a guardrail and a suture

To tell you you'll get through, I'm one of the lonely too

One of the lonely too, I'm one of the lonely too

You took me to the opera

I liked the music, I liked the smell

You said I'd never really know you very well

But you were just not right, 'cause I turned on the light

And beautiful, beautiful, beautiful was the fight

Beautiful was the fight

The fight

The fight

Oh Roy, I heard about the boys, say it isn't true

I heard in Birmingham they flew right over you

And I've come from the future with a guardrail and a suture

To tell you you'll get through, I'm one of the lonely too

(I am one of the lonely)

(I am one of the lonely)

(I am one of the lonely too)

Oh Roy

(I am one of the lonely)

(I am one of the lonely)

Oh Roy

(I am one of the lonely too)

I'm one of the lonely too