[ Featuring James Zabloski ]
Everybody said he was a good man
That he worked hard
That he had a certain style
Other people said he was a hero
He was a good friend
Who would walk with you a mile
But what they didn't know
What they couldn't know
Was that he kept a burning secret deep inside
And what he held onto
What he thought was true
Was a feeling and a fear he had to hide
See, Billy was a man who had a thing for other men
He was wounded by the words his family said
In one final act of anguish to diminish all his pain
Billy Johnson put a bullet through his head
Well, that's what they said
That's what they said
Everybody said she was a good girl
She was funny
That she had a pretty face
No one ever knew the weight she carried
She resented
As they kept her in her place
But what they didn't know
What they couldn't know
Was that she kept a secret hidden deep somewhere
And what she held onto
What she felt was true
That she was worthless was a cross she couldn't bear
See, Annie was a woman who was born a larger size
From the comments never thin enough, they said
In one final act of anguish to diminish all her pain
Annie Henley took some pills and now she's dead
That's what they said.
That's what they said
She was only seventeen and he was only twenty-two
But the words from those around them hurt like hell
She was never thin enough and he would never measure up
That's what they said
That's what they said
Well
Annie locked inside the bathroom grabbed her mother's sleeping pills
Billy grabbed his daddy's gun to end it all
Yet their friends and family seemed surprised when they got the final call
We never knew they said
Had no idea they said
So many things they said
They said them all
They said them all
That's what they said
That's what they said
They said them all
That's what they said
That's what they said