The Man Who Couldn't Cry

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There once was a man who just couldn't cry
 He hadn't cried for years & for years
 Napalmed babies & the movie 'Love Story',
 For instance could not produce tears
 As a child he had cried as all children will
 But at some point the tear ducts ran dry
 He grew to be a man & the feces hit the fan
 Things got bad but he couldn't cry
 His dog got run over, his wife up & left him
 After that he got sacked from his job
 Lost an arm in the war, was laughed at by a whore
 But still not a sniffle & sob
 Well his novel was refused & his movie was banned
 And his biog Broadway show was a flop
 He was sent off to jail, you guessed it, no bail
 But still not a dribble or drop
 In jail he was beaten, bullied & buggered
 And made to make licence plates
 Water & bread was all he was fed
 But not once did a tear stain his face
 Doctors were called in, scientists too,
 Theologians were last & practically least
 They all agreed sure enough
 He was no cream puff
 But in fact an insensitive beast
 He was removed from jail & placed in a place
 For the insensitive & the insane
 He played lots of chess & he made lots of friends
 And he wept every time it would train
 Once it rained 40 days & it rained 40 nights
 And he cried and he cried and he cried and he cried
 On the 41st day he just passed away
 He just dehydrated & died
 He went up to heaven located his dog
 Not only that but he rejoined his arm
 Down below all the critics, they took it all back
 Cancer robbed the whore of her charm
 His ex-wife died of stretch marks, his ex-employer went broke
 The theologians were finally found out
 Right down to the ground, the prison burned down
 The earth suffered perpetual drought
 

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Duration
06:15
Key
2
Tempo
130 BPM

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