I miss you not around and frankly I find that hard to take
I hope that you found what you were looking for
So many people cried on the day your music died
And you know I for one well I had a tear in my eye
Mother and son grow together so symbiotic
Cage in cage poor psychotic you
And day by day what you had you know was fantastic
But the only thing that was left was the pain coursing through your veins
It’s too hard to laugh for fear of crying, you know
There’s so little time to live for fear of dying
Look at all you achieved in thirty-nine years
You had so much still to give so much laughter and tears
But you threw it all away on that January day
Why Billy why, why Billy
The maverick gypsy boy too large in life for a place like Dundee
Across the silver Tay your destiny lay
And you could have made the great you know you were really something
All along you lived your life your own way
You were the dandy and the poet and the popstar
You were the maverick gypsy madman and the charmer
You were the showman Mr Flamboyant lost in glamour
You were a mother’s boy who couldn’t live without her without her
Why Billy why, why Billy
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