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