Aldo

Lived in a city, no one knew he was there The little old man with silver hair And he's listened to Beethoven every day No, the little old man never came out to play He was sweet and quiet with a thoughtful mind Didn't know how to be cruel, only kind Now he's up in the heavens doesn't care for his money Checking everyone still loves everybody Born in a mountains one of nature's wild His mother walked out, she was only a child So he was sent to the state to be loved by another But the little young boy just wanted his mother She never admitted that he was her son So he spent 60 years saying he had no one And told all of those around him a multitude of things Did not get too close, scared of what the future brings Aldo, we love you and miss you every day Your spirit still lives on, the violins are on replay We played your favourite songs very often on repeat I'm sorry it took so long to write these words down on a sheet I met him when I had just turned around ten We had similar birthdays, we were friends from then He had boxes of crackers piled against the wall And bottles of champagne that he saved for us all He lived 'round the corner from my secondary school And he had no family, so it was us that he saw And a young girl from Tesco who he would always amuse, would not stop crying when she heard the sad news Aldo passed away at aged 84 We found ourselves with him and it was us he adored And his mother who walked out around 80 years ago Turned out to live in a house just down the road It sounds like a far fetched story from a film But this was Aldo's life it really happened to him And we played his favourite song very often on repeat And I'm sorry it took so long to write these words down on a sheet