Corrido Por Buddy-Jolie Holland

[ti:Corrido Por Buddy] [ar:Jolie Holland] [al:The Living and The Dead] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Corrido Por Buddy - Jolie Holland [00:03.40]Oh listen my dear friends and I'll tell you a story [00:11.43]About someone I barely knew at all [00:18.49] [00:19.57]He was a friend of my friends and they told me about him [00:28.08]How he had nothing to break his fall [00:35.59] [00:36.83]He had that bad religion in his blood [00:45.71]The kind that brings you down and can never lift you up [00:54.11]He was a beautiful young man on the streets of Austin [01:01.21] [01:02.19]He was a ghost faced junkie on the streets of New Orleans [01:08.73] [01:10.55]I could barely recognize him when I saw him [01:16.62] [01:18.42]He had to look me in the face [01:23.03]And say my name before I knew it was him [01:28.48]Oh buddy I wish I'd been a better friend [01:39.32] [01:42.96]What if they only gave you love when you lied [01:50.18] [01:51.21]It's bound to really rip you up inside [01:58.21] [02:00.03]Pressures a person into that horrible mouth [02:06.22]That leaves a bloody aftermath [02:11.05] [02:12.01]Everything minus one is everything [02:19.26]He treated me with what I considered kindness [02:26.32] [02:27.45]When I crawled off to sleep in my car he was worried about me [02:33.94] [02:35.47]When we payed our respects to the moon on the outskirts of Austin [02:42.28] [02:43.85]I'm sorry to say I was too shy to stay in touch with him [02:55.07] [02:55.82]Oh buddy I wish I'd been a better friend [03:04.22] [03:07.71]And I wonder what it takes just to save one little life [03:14.86] [03:16.46]Icarus almost made it back to the shore [03:23.60]When I was really down there were three little words [03:31.47]From a couple of good people that kept me holding on [03:39.01]Oh buddy I'll never get a chance again [03:46.63] [03:47.21]Oh buddy I wish I'd been a better friend [03:55.28]Oh buddy I'll never get a chance again [04:02.79]Oh buddy I wish I'd been a better friend