[00:00.000] 作词 : Blossom Caldarone [00:00.384] 作曲 : Blossom Caldarone [00:00.768]Lived in a city, no one knew he was there [00:05.142]The little old man with silver hair [00:10.009]And he's listened to Beethoven every day [00:15.065]No, the little old man never came out to play [00:19.971]He was sweet and quiet with a thoughtful mind [00:25.330]Didn't know how to be cruel, only kind [00:29.858]Now he's up in the heavens doesn't care for his money [00:34.989]Checking everyone still loves everybody [00:40.029]Born in a mountains one of nature's wild [00:44.749]His mother walked out, she was only a child [00:49.493]So he was sent to the state to be loved by another [00:54.637]But the little young boy just wanted his mother [00:59.461] [00:59.706]She never admitted that he was her son [01:04.415]So he spent 60 years saying he had no one [01:09.146]And told all of those around him a multitude of things [01:14.499]Did not get too close, scared of what the future brings [01:19.497]Aldo, we love you and miss you every day [01:24.315]Your spirit still lives on, the violins are on we replay [01:29.301]We played your favourite songs very often on repeat [01:34.182]I'm sorry it took so long to write these words down on a sheet [01:39.948] [01:41.555]I met him when I had just turned around ten [01:46.571]We had similar birthdays, we were friends from then [01:51.402]He had boxes of crackers piled against the wall [01:56.196]And bottles of champagne that he saved for us all [02:01.411]He lived 'round the corner from my secondary school [02:06.260]And he had no family, so it was us that he saw [02:11.552]And a young girl from Tesco who he would always amuse, would not stop crying when she heard the sad news [02:23.597] [03:08.919]Aldo passed away at aged 84 [03:13.651]We found ourselves with him and it was us he adored [03:18.838]And his mother who walked out around 80 years ago [03:24.039]Turned out to live in a house just down the road [03:29.279]It sounds like a far fetched story from a film [03:34.344]But this was Aldo's life it really happened to him [03:39.651]And we played his favourite song very often on repeat [03:44.822]And I'm sorry it took so long to write these words down on a sheet