Too Short - Michael McDonald

I met a girl that lived in Blue Hills

She said her name was Beverly

She had a smile that’d make a man’s heart melt

One gold tooth she could not hide from me

I said girl it breaks my heart to wonder

Why you walk these streets alone

Why you sell your body in the shadows

There’s just one thing I need to know

Where do you hide your heart and soul

She said

This life, it was too short to give up

She told me

This life, it was too short to give up

Too short to give up

Away at school he would read her letters

How he was his momma’s pride and joy

But like the fate of many others

The virus took his mother

And a father’s drunken silence leaves a lost and wayward boy

Free souls that for all the best intentions

Are just another sad tale this cruel world will tell

Where the best intentions are good for nothing more

Than to pave a road to hell

Still they hears a voice

Like a faint and distant bell

Saying

This life, it was too short to give up

She told him

This life, it was too short to give up

Too short, too short

This life, too short, too short

This life, is just too short to give up

Too short, too short

Too short

Tattooed arms

Clutching a weathered Bible

From a prison cell they put him on the street

To spread his message of revival

To every lost and lonely soul

Every broken heart he meets

On every crowded street corner

In the gutters of defeat

He tells them

This life, it was too short to give up

He told them

This life, it was too short to give up

There is a light that shines for us

And one everlasting love that lifts us up

This life, it was too short to give up

It was too short, was too short

Too short

Too short to give up

Too short, too short

Too short, too short

Too short, too short

Too short, too short

Too short, too short