/r/songaweek ten: spoken word
Only A Witness - words and music by Peter Berglund
I saw JonBenét Ramsey last night
She’s been dead these past nineteen years
Now she’s living at Samaritan House
And she cried me her tale of tears
The girl was a beauty beyond belief
But they had to put her on display
Made her do those beauty shows
Poor girl said she never even got to play
She told me the dead need only a witness
To tell their sad stories to
Having left this world so suddenly
Some feel they have more to do
They never found the killer
But everyone knew who it was
And JonBenét told me all about it
How the demon does what it does
She told me it didn’t hurt anymore
Time really does heal all wounds
It’s the pain of surprise that lingers
The one thing that doesn’t pass soon.
She said the dead need only a witness
To tell their sad stories to
Having left this world so suddenly
Some feel they have more to do
She wiped back a tear and she asked me
If people remembered her name
I told her the hole she left in our hearts
‘Cause nothing since was ever the same.
She told me the dead just need a witness
To tell their sad stories to
Having left this world so suddenly
Some feel they have more to do