Boy in Need - Louden Swain

He cannot help it that he’s 30 years old

He spent his money on a midnight show

And it all had a profound effect on him

Everyone around him 's paper thin

Thin

He can’t afford to leave

He listens to his needs

It makes him feel so deep

He’s a boy in need

He remembers he was twelve years old

A champion everyway

Or so he was told

And the path it seemed so clear ahead of him

Now it’s just a race he cannot win.

Win

He can’t afford to leave

He listens to his needs

It makes him feel so deep

He’s a boy in need

Other people they don’t know

Life’s just a one man show

Your kid has turned to grow

And when it comes he won’t say no

But he can’t say yes until that day.

Just to think he will be 60 years old

Life not wasted, but nothing to show

And he’ll sit down at a table just for him

And think about it, all that could have been.

Been

He can’t afford to leave

He listens to his needs

He wants to play the lead

He’s a boy in need.

Need.

Need