「Just One」 Lisa Shaffer Verse 1: Crowd gathered ‘round a school bus Third Street and Elm. The neighbor man said, “Officer, I caught it all on film. I watched my little grandson come so close to death, by that man standing right there with liquor on his breath. Another little boy wasn’t so lucky he was lying there in the street, his little, lifeless body beneath the yellow sheet.” While a young man was on the sidewalk, going through a sobriety check, the crowd was turning into a lynch mob when he raised up his hands and said. Chorus: I only had just one; I swear that’s the truth. that kid came out of no where, there was nothing I could do. I couldn’t swerve. I couldn’t stop. Now here I am asking God, “What have I done? I only had just one.” Verse 2: A young mama burst through the crowd, pulled back that yellow sheet. Collapsed and started shaking uncontrollably; Searched until she found that young man with her shattered eyes, then tore a hole into his soul, as she screamed and cried: Chorus: “I only had just one and you took him away, I hope this is something you relive everyday. You could’ve swerved, and you could’ve stopped, but you didn’t, now look my God what have you done. I only had just one. I only had just one.”
“Officer, I caught it all on film.
I watched my little grandson come so close to death,
by that man standing right there with liquor on his breath.
Another little boy wasn’t so lucky he was lying there in the street,
his little, lifeless body beneath the yellow sheet.”