billy radcliffe

billy radcliffe didn't go to town

and when we looked up

he was looking right down

catching blue in his eyes that were brown

billy radcliffe

billy radcliffe

owned by the state

from his first breath

to the cemetery gate

he was the first boy born in space

billy radcliffe

billy radcliffe

very first one

he really had lived just a cursed son

a split-in-half man

sang the cherubim

billy radcliffe

billy radcliffe saw what the devil man saw

a spot of blue in the black of the eye of the lord

such a cruel love is the kind that has wrought

oh

billy

billy radcliffe

billy

sadly

didn't live long

he had to stay there

because he wasn't too strong

he's stepping out the door

blowing up like a bomb

billy radcliffe

billy radcliffe

very first one

really a hatched man

a light switch son

a split-in-half man

sang the cherubim

billy radcliffe

very first one

a split-in-half man

sang the cherubim

i'll bet you cried when he died

now

did ya?

now

did ya?

now billy radcliffe saw what the devil man saw

a spot of blue in the black of the eye of the lord

oh

billy

billy radcliffe saw what the devil had

and i feel very bad for william radcliffe