Caught In The Crowd-Kate Miller-Heidke

[00:11.20]There was a guy at my school when I was in high school [00:14.02]We'd ride side by side in the morning on our bicycles [00:16.98]Never even spoken or faced each other [00:19.65]But on the last hill we'd race each other [00:22.45]When we reached the racks, we'd each go our own way [00:24.97]I wasn't in his classes, I didn't know his name [00:27.72]When we finally got to speak, he just stared at his feet [00:30.82]And mumbled a sentence that ended with James [00:39.71]I was young and caught in the crowd [00:42.08]I didn't know then what I know now [00:45.23]I was dumb and I was proud and I'm sorry [00:50.77]If I could go back, do it again [00:53.70]I'd be someone you could call friend [00:56.57]Please, please believe that I'm sorry [01:01.88]Well, he was quite a big guy, kinda shy and quiet [01:04.82]When the kids called him weird, he didn't try to deny it [01:07.58]Every lunchtime he'd spend walking by himself [01:10.30]'Round the boundary of the grounds 'til he heard the bell [01:13.00]Well, one day I found him, joined him on his walk [01:15.83]We were silent for a while until we started to talk [01:18.54]I told him my family were fighting in court [01:21.59]He said his step-dad and him always fought [01:24.74]We talked about music, he was into punk [01:27.07]Told me all the bands that I liked were junk [01:30.04]I said I'd never heard the songs the *** Pistols sang [01:32.63]I laughed back at him and then the bell rang [01:41.68]I was young and caught in the crowd [01:44.50]I didn't know then what I know now [01:47.36]I was dumb and I was proud and I'm sorry [01:52.90]If I could go back, do it again [01:55.80]I'd be someone you could call friend [01:58.62]Please, please believe that I'm sorry [02:15.09]It was after school in the afternoon [02:17.61]The corridors were crowded as we came out of the rooms [02:20.52]Three guys I knew pushed him into the cement [02:23.89]Threw away his bag and said he had no friends [02:26.30]He yelled that he did and he looked around [02:28.99]Tried getting up but they pushed him on down [02:31.95]That's when he saw me, called out my name [02:37.36]And I turned my back and just walked away [02:42.85]Yeah, I turned my back and just walked away [02:49.16]I was young and caught in the crowd [02:52.03]I didn't know then what I know now [02:54.83]I was dumb and I was proud and I'm sorry [03:00.53]If I could go back, do it again [03:03.31]I'd be someone you could call friend [03:06.13]Please, please believe that I'm sorry [03:17.73]Please, please believe that I'm sorry