Shades Of Blue

As seven ticks to eight o'clock He rumbles down the stairs Mother's cooking in her kitchen, father is in his chair The headline on the front page reads "the sun's coming out today" Shining down in perfect streaks, it's anywhere USA With eyes wide open The sky is always a thousand shades of blue Probably broken, lost and lonely We're all just shades of you Can't you hear the school bells singing? Hurry, don't be late Wandering the crowded hallways Searching for his place The writing on the chalk board reads "who will be king this year?" And even though he raised his hand No one knows he's there With arms wide open His life's becoming a thousand shades of blue Probably broken, lost and lonely We're all just shades of you There's no escaping where he's going A thousand shades of blue Probably hopeless, don't you notice? We're all just shades of you He let the water run too deep Then he just slowly slipped on in And when he finds the nerve to breathe All they say is no one saw it coming Hear the sirens, the cops arriving A thousand shades of blue But it's hopeless, no one noticed We're all just shades of you With eyes wide open, they found him floating A thousand shades of blue There's no escaping where he's going We're all just shades of you