[id:$00FF7FC8] [ar:Richard Marx] [ti:boy next door] [by:] [hash:7d9a0d5227f77a8b374db6b3a877768a] [al:] [sign:] [qq:] [total:282097] [offset:0] [00:32.42]Born at the end of a Minnesota freeze [00:35.57]Eldest child of Willy and Louise [00:39.22]His little sister died at the age of four [00:45.11]The family posed [00:46.95]led by Louise [00:48.05]Like right out of some [00:49.65]kind of Rockwell scene [00:51.71]But Jake couldn't fake it anymore [00:57.98]Nobody heard the hammer falling [01:01.18]Sensed that judgement day was calling [01:04.38]Nobody thought to fear the boy next door [01:11.01]Everybody loves to point their finger [01:13.91]They might as well have pulled the trigger [01:17.21]Nobody stopped to hear the boy next door [01:23.68]Willy later said he really should've known [01:26.87]The boy spent too much time on his own [01:30.43]What was on his mind, God only knew [01:36.50]One by one the neighbors went away [01:39.45]A gruesome little game [01:40.90]Jake taught himself to play [01:43.20]His daddy always said [01:44.95]find something to do [01:49.28]Nobody heard the hammer falling [01:52.60]Sensed that judgement day was calling [01:55.75]Nobody thought to fear the boy next door [02:02.24]Everybody loves to point their finger [02:05.24]They might as well have pulled the trigger [02:08.59]Nobody stopped to hear the boy next door [02:15.73]One less mistake to think about [02:21.29]Cause no one read the writing on the wall [02:28.58]So much for case 1239 [02:34.38]Covered up [02:35.63]curled up in a ball [03:06.35]One little page in the history of crime [03:09.88]Lawyers made a fortune for their time [03:13.08]Seems an explanation was never found [03:18.97]And I hope this tale won't be misunderstood [03:22.37]Things ain't the same in every neighborhood [03:25.92]But before you go to sleep tonight [03:32.41]Look around [03:36.44]Nobody heard the hammer falling [03:39.17]Sensed that judgement day was calling [03:42.37]Nobody thought to fear the boy next door [03:48.74]Everybody loves to point their finger [03:51.94]They might as well have pulled the trigger [03:55.24]Nobody stopped to hear the boy next door