Lyrics Quarterflash – Goodby Uncle Buzz

I was just fifteen, at my cousins — we were playing
When we found Uncle Buzz dead in the basement
Dad shut the door and no one said that word — that word
We found a note that he wrote on the mantle

Goodbye Uncle Buzz I know I should’ve cried
But I couldn’t just because
Goodbye Uncle Buzz everything’s covered
But nothing’s what is was
Nothing’s what it was — nothing’s what it was

The paper said he died from hypertension
And the word, ‘suicide’ — was never mentioned
Mom said it was his heart
I guess it was in a way — in a way
I played his records on our Sears turntable
Heard Billie Holiday, Sam Cooke, and Mavis Staples
And I tried his old guitar
But it wasn’t what the Beatles played anyway

Goodbye Uncle Buzz I know I should’ve cried
But I couldn’t just because
Goodbye Uncle Buzz everything’s covered
But nothing’s what is was
Nothing’s what it was — nothing’s what it was

It was ten years later met my cousins at the station
But nobody said a word about the basement
Though everybody there had a drop of Uncle Buzz in our blood
And now and then I find I think about my uncle
And our mothers and our fathers and our secrets in the basement
And the children in the dark, the children in the dark

Goodbye Uncle Buzz I know I should’ve cried
But I couldn’t just because
Goodbye Uncle Buzz everything’s covered
But nothing’s what is was
Nothing’s what it was — nothing’s what it was