Zaz had red hair   He didn't care   He always laughed loud   He wasn't proud      Just a real easy guy   Wouldn't tell a lie   But then one day   Zaz turned blue      Zaz turned blue   What were we supposed to do   Yeah, Zaz turned blue   What were we supposed to do   When Zaz turned blue      One night in the park   For a lark   Zaz let Steve Brown   Fool around      Steve squeezed his neck   Figure what the heck   But Zaz hit the ground   He was down      Oh, Zaz turned blue   What were we supposed to do   Yeah, Zaz turned blue   What were we supposed to do   When Zaz turned blue      After high school   Zaz was cool   He worked on cars   He went to bars      And then one day   He went away   He became a marine   At the age of eighteen      But he didn't want to fight   Didn't do it out of spite   And he didn't want to die    No he didn't want to die   And he seemed kind of strange   Could it be that he changed   On that night in the park   When he fainted in the dark      Zaz didn't die   Lucky guy   There were no parades   How the glory fades      Now he shoots lots of pool   And as a rule   Wears a silly grin   On his chin   It all started when      Zaz turned blue   What were we supposed to do   Yeah, when Zaz turned blue   What were we supposed to do   When Zaz turned blue