A Good Man

from Hello Darkness by The Revenants

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You seem to remember me much better
Than I remember myself and who am I to disagree
You tell me stories about what happened
From way back when and from way back when
You've kept a detailed diary
I caused a little trouble and I messed about
But deep down inside you say I was a Boy Scout

Hey, hey, hey, oh, oh, oh
You tell me I was a good man

Well I want to believe you because
You seem to know who did what and who did what to whom
You say you got pictures of me
And you say you wrote every detail down
It's as if I were Leopold Bloom
Now you got a tell-all and you're gonna cash out
Well I really don't care
For all the sordid stuff you've written about

Did I done good
Well at least for me you know I can pretend
Did I done good, did I done good in the end
Did I done good, did I give back all the cool that I stole
Did I done good, did I save at least one wretched soul

You pretty paint a picture of man doing just what he can do
And what he can do, well it's not perfection
"But I can say that he tried real hard
Yeah he tried real hard
Went against the odds and faced down rejection
I know he had a kind heart, never tried to do bad
You'd have to burn his house down
Just to make him mad"

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from Hello Darkness, released April 15, 2023

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