Crazy Messy Lovely (intro) Lyrics

You don't know Jack

I witnessed him

An eight-year-old boy

With the voice of a fifty-year-old blues singer

At thirteen he played his songs on the radio

He snuck out onto the streets of Avalon to play his music

Exploring his world

Tom Waits met him

Shook his hand, and said

Good work kid

But life wasn't all peaches and roses for him

Far from it

I watched him struggle

I watched him struggle through a heavy disorder

No friends

No neighbors

Alone in his room with only a guitar

I watched him contemplate death as a ten-year-old

Feel pain from his toes to his head

Uncontrollable spasms

As he fought through depression

Anxiety and rage

He was just a child

I watched him lose his father

Tragically lose his dog

All before he was eighteen

There was always a way forward

As we look back through that time

This is a small amount of the music that followed

I'm grateful to know him and

I'll tell you

There's so much life out there

It's crazy, messy, and lovely