Same town
same school
Same seat
they sat in
on that bluebird bus
Both their daddies
worked the factory
had the same raising up
But Johnny
had some demons
buried deep
beneath his soul
and took it out on Billy
this is how
the story goes
It started with a joke
about his haircut
and his clothes
'Til Billy sat there
everyday just eating
lunch alone
but Johnny
never let up
never ran out of
jokes to tell
'Til the walls of
that ol' school turned
into Billy's living hell
Sometimes the worst
of evil's
hidden right there
in plain sight
It's hard to see
the darkness 'til it's
brighter than the light
Be careful what you say
'cause words
they cut like a knife
and you never know
which ones are gonna
go and take a life
Johnny went to college
found a girl
and got a job
Had some babies
built a big house
on a fourty-acre lot
Billy stuck around
that sleepy town
and turned to pills
He never found
his way back
to the smile
that Johnny killed
Sometimes
the worst of evil's
hidden right there
in plain sight
It's hard to see
the darkness
'til it's brighter
than the light
Be careful what you say
'cause words
they cut like a knife
and you never know
which ones are gonna go
and take a life
Oh whoa
Oh whoa
Now Billy's got
some demons of his own
He went a dug
a couple sixfoot holes
Said if I'm going out
you're going out
I ain't going out alone
out alone
Sometimes
the worst of evil's
hidden right there
in plain sight
It's hard to see
the darkness
'til it's brighter
than the light
Be careful what you say
'cause words
they cut like a knife
and you never know
which ones are gonna go
and take a life
Yeah you never know
which ones are gonna go
and take a life