Billy Miller

Lyrics

Empty walls and nothing's moving Useless time lies in the corners Not a sound to start a thought Strips of sunlight slowly leaking down the door And the window holds no sight Except a sky that has no room Billy's lying on the bed And the clothes he wears feel strange But he's lately getting used And just for habit he flips through the magazine He's read it many times So he knows it word by word The blurred photo shows a child's uneven smile Another young girl like your next-door neighbor's child And she got raped as darkness settled on the park The man had soon be found And he was sentenced to eleven months of jail He'd always been a decent man A young man in bitterness A senseless fist and legs that cannot walk Lonely in the silent crowd - cussing at his woman's open grave The driver of the other car Thoughtful father to a happy family Had caused the fatal accident Running a red light when driving drunk He can afford to pay the bail A sheriff in New Mexico shot a J.D. on the run Three shots were to be heard But no one knows which was the deadly one In the end the matter was delayed And again he has to read the short notice in the back "Billy Miller tried in court for possessing drugs And habitual drug abuse Sentenced to five years in the county jail" And Billy leans back on the wall And recites the words he's read Like a prayer's worn-out terms That need to explanation to those who know No, you don't need to it plain to those who know