i saw a boy's t-shirt today   it said, "one of us is dead"   he just looked me in the eyes   and cried   i saw a newspaper today   it read one of us is dead   and old man looked me in the eyes   and smiled      maybe i'm the one who's already gone   cold in the ground, or fast asleep   tonight      some days i don't know if i've grown too cold   grown too old and left without saying goodbye   goodbye      maybe i'm the one who's already gone   cold in the ground, or fast asleep   tonight   maybe i didn't see i was buried today   wasting away and sleeping all alone   maybe i'm not a man who sees so well   knows when his heart began to fail      when i looked in your eyes today   i saw one of us was dead   but it all began to fade   just like before      i heard the news today   they said, "one of us is dead"   but couldn't realize the end had already passed him by