[ti:Billy The Kid] [ar:Robert de Boron] [al:Mellow Candle] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Billy The Kid - Robert de Boron (ロベルト・デ・ボロン) [00:26.12]When he was young he use to play with toy guns [00:28.43]He'd say it was for fun but really it was the feel of it [00:31.23]He acted silly but Billy loved the appeal of it [00:33.53]Though its just plastic his roles got drastic [00:36.36]Sound effects would blow he'd black mask it [00:38.84]Around his neck would glow that classic Rambo medallion [00:42.34]He use to dream of Lambo's Italian Mafioso Commando battalions [00:47.34]He would lead them through the dark of winter [00:49.53]He would leave them when his mom had started dinner [00:51.79]At the table with his bleeding elbows [00:54.17]Even when eating he needed his GI Joe's [00:56.27] [00:56.89]By his side guarding his pride [00:59.15]A soldier or a poet it got harder to decide [01:01.38] [01:01.93]The fun ends as the evening unravels [01:04.12]A young mans ego so fragile [01:06.06] [01:27.17]A now he's hitting his teens still drifting in between [01:30.02]Wanting to be a writer wanting to be a fighter [01:32.38] [01:33.21]He's starting to wonder which was mightier [01:35.12] [01:35.77]And found one [01:36.50] [01:37.11]The difference between Martin and Malcolm [01:39.17]He couldn't see it in the outcome [01:40.87]They didn't live to see it [01:42.40]Now how come [01:43.22]Was the thought he saw the ones who fought [01:45.36]He saw the ones who got caught in their cross fire [01:47.76] [01:48.55]His boss fired him and the cause [01:50.46]He was reading Che Guevara instead of him parking cars [01:53.46]Who writes the laws who enforces them [01:56.01]Born to win born to loose born again [01:58.77]Mortal men with an ego so fragile [02:01.11]Reading as the meaning unravels [02:03.04]Was it a bullet to the head or the words to the brain [02:06.30]That brought about more change [02:07.88] [02:23.00]It's been a long time [02:23.96] [02:49.49]It's been a long time since the toy guns and the acting bigger [02:52.91]Active trigger now he a real action figure [02:55.29]The military made it harder to decide [02:57.35]A soldier and a poet now the poet guards his pride [03:00.32]You see his views we see them on the evening news [03:02.93]We read the words found hidden in his BDU's [03:05.40]We loose sight with an eye for an eye [03:07.56]Were the last words written on the night that he died [03:10.12] [03:10.66]In a book they gave to his son the day he turned 21 [03:14.56] [03:15.08]The day he learned of young men who have come to an end [03:17.88]Of his father who held his gun but held harder to his pen [03:20.63]A martyr born again every time his book was opened [03:23.06] [03:23.56]And the mind that provoked it [03:25.43]Was it the words from his hands or the bullet from a gun [03:28.17]That kept a man alive for his son [03:29.94] [03:44.88]It's been a long time