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| | | Artist: | Small Fred |
| | Album: | No Limit | | Track: | Leslie Is Different | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 1 |
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| | | Lyrics: | The neighbor up the road brought the message
Joe and May never had a phone
Five children
grown and gone to college
Now they lived out on Pewaukee Lake alone
And the nurse at the
big Milwaukee hospital
Said "We've got a baby here with no eyes
It's retarded, it's got
cerebral palsy
Six months old living only to die
And we remembered the tiny
Englishwoman
Used to hire out as a nurse-governess
May Lemke, will you take this broken
child off our hands?"
And God loves a fool 'cause she said yes. She
said:
CHORUS:
Leslie is different
Like everyone in the world
He's kind of
awkward, he's kind of fragile
Kind of graceful, kind of tough
He's kind of slow, he's kind
of clever
He's just Leslie and that's enough.
He just lay there helpless and
silent
Not a tear, not a smile, not a word
But they held him and rocked him and sang him
to sleep
And talked to him as if he really heard
And he grew with the sun and
affection
Though his body was spindly and small
And a hundred times they stood him with
his hands upon the fence
And a hundred times watched him fall
And their daughters warned
it was useless
They said, "Mama, that boy will break your heart."
She said, "Love never
comes easy
And miracles mostly come hard." She said:
CHORUS
May used to
play the piano
And sing the old songs from the war
There was always music on the
radio
And the records she bought at the store
And sometimes they swore he was
listening
Though of course there was no way to know
Maybe he was flying in his own blue
sky
Where no one else would ever go
Maybe he was lost in a forest
Where demons and
woodspirits dwell
But for sixteen years he had never spoke a word
Never taken one step for
himself. But they said:
CHORUS
Along about three in the morning
A ripple
of music broke the night
Joe's fallen asleep at the TV again
May reached over to turn on
the light
But the music kept getting louder
And the TV was quiet and cold
Leslie was
playing the piano
And his fingers were agile and bold
A Tchaikovsky piano
concerto
Like water breaking over a dam
A river of ecstasy flowed through his
hands
And each note cried out, "I am." Because
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