Before.

Oh, Adlai
Our Adlai
The burden's not yours
You can't find the cures
For the dead.
Oh, Adlai
Our Adlai
You fight but can't win
You run from your sin
Instead.

You see, you're just human
You're one of that race
No abomination
No ugly disgrace
I wish I could tell you
I wish I could say
All the words you've inspired
And the persistent way
You've encouraged my heart
Urged me on to my goal
But how hard it can be!
To fill the hole in one's sole...

Oh, Adlai
Our Adlai
I hope that some way
I hope that some day
You win.

Oh, Eugene
Our Eugene
I want to conceive
I want to believe
What you say.
Oh, Eugene
Our Eugene
Lend me your spirit
Don't let me fear it
Today.

Your brotherhood of man
Seems like some cruel dream
Something of desire
Something for the team
But when I look at man
I see just a seed
No beautiful flowerful
Just some desperate need
But this demand is one
I can't seem to supply
I can't carry that weight!
But Lord knows I'll try...

Oh, Eugene
Our Eugene
Kiss me on my brow
Remind me of how
We should live.

Oh, Robert
Our Robert
Why'd you make me believe?
Why'd you give hope then leave
Me behind?
Oh, Robert
Our Robert
I can't do this alone
I can never atone
For my kind.

I wish I had money
I wish I had fame
So I could speak out
Without sounding so lame
I wish I could live
Like a dead Kennedy
But I'm just some dumb kid!
What's the matter with me?

Oh, Robert
Our Robert
I want to do what you did
But what can a kid
Hope to do?

And soon this dumb kid will become a dumb man
And he'll cry every day and he won't understand
Why no one can care and no one can see
The way that things are or the way they could be.

Hush, little darlin', don't say a word
If you do you'll sound absurd
Keep yo' thoughts inside yo' head
Hoard them dreams until you dead.

Can't want it too much
Can't cry too hard
Can't scream or shout
Gots t' keep em out
Of your heart.

Somebody loves me, I been told
But that lie, she's gettin' old
So go ahead, tear down that wall
Mr. Egghead gonna have a fall
From grace.

This little spite o' mine
I'm gonna let it dine
Upon the secrets
You keepin' inside.

Oh, Adlai
Oh, Eugene
Oh, Robert
Oh, Lord
Help me open up my heart
Help me clean out my soul
Help me love like you all loved

Before.