cruelty the kellys always walked the streets cuz they couldn't face the anger and the hunger and the pain waitin' back home couldn’t a been more than eleven twins out in the streets so late you wonder what kind of folks would just let ‘em roam i'd see them walking in the rain a certain look of desolation and a hungry desperation in their eyes i could tell they needed a friend but they had no way of knowing that they both were in for a terrible surprise and the cruelty of the world- came crashing down and nobody seemed to care in that forgotten town and it always broke my heart- their mama cried cuz I think she knew the truth- down deep inside and i always wanted to help them try and offer up my sympathy and ask them if they maybe needed a ride cause I wasn’t like all the others but how could they have known about the evil that was lurking deep inside said i seen them walking down the road there were two men following closely like they had something suspicious on their mind it was the last they seen of the kellys they say kids who run away from home are sometimes just impossible to find chorus: when the cruelty of the world - comes pouring creeping in how do I live with myself, and this ugly sin It’ll always break my heart- their mama cries cuz I know she sees right though my twisted dirty evil Lies Instrumental jam… back to chorus: and i only wanted to help them- still wish i could they were told it was an act of kindness, and they understood so whatever happened that day – will remain unsaid cuz there’s only one person who knows if the Kelly twins are really dead words and music by joe herbert, copyright November, 2009