Cosmo Jarvis

(Verse)
I'm not gonna talk like she was my friend
But she died and I started to cry
She hung out in the village wherever I hung out
Didn't know how to talk but was always fine

(Verse)
She saw many of the same things I have seen
And I bet she had her own grand dreams
Now a girl just a few years older than me
Has been taken from the world for no reason it seems

(Pre-Chorus)
I see a million bad people a day
And I know they bad people but they won't go away
They bump in on places everywhere that you'll see
So who decided she was gonna be the person to leave
It could've been me

(Chorus)
So easily ,another good girl goes away
While the bad guys get to stay
I don't get it, I don't know what to say
And I'm sorry you were thrown away

(Verse)
She could've done so much more but now
The chance has been taken away
I wish I could've done something for her
Like go and get death and try to get in his way

(Verse)
A life cut short while others drag
And plot, and steal and scheme
Now a girl from the same damn village as me
Has been taken from the world for no reason it seems

(Pre-Chorus)
I see a million bad people a day
And I know they bad people but they won't go away
They bump in on places everywhere that you'll see
So who decided she was gonna be the person to leave
It could've been me

(Chorus)
So easily ,another good girl goes away
While the bad guys get to stay
I don't get it, I don't know what to say
And I'm sorry you were thrown away

(Chorus)
So easily ,another good girl goes away
While the bad guys get to stay
I don't get it, I don't know what to say
And I'm sorry you were thrown away
And I'm sorry you were thrown away

Critic, journalist, sometime musician, onetime actor, and full-time Midwesterner Mark Deming provides a discographic-based biography for Cosmo Jarvis:

“Singer, songwriter, and filmmaker Cosmo Jarvis has earned a devoted following for his witty, often satiric tunes about the foibles of relationships and contemporary life, often rooted in personal experience, as well as his own self-produced videos and short subjects that have given his work a global online audience. Harrison Cosmo Krikoryan Jarvis was born on September 1, 1989 in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Jarvis' family relocated to the United Kingdom when he was young, and he grew up in Devon in Southwest England. Jarvis began writing songs when he was only 12 years old, around the same time he began making short films using a VHS video camera. While Jarvis' early videos were little more than documentation of pranks played with his friends, with time he began constructing more complex narratives, and similarly his songs began to evolve, ranging from folk-inspired acoustic guitar pieces and elaborate pop tunes to tongue-in-cheek hip-hop tracks.

At the age of 16, Jarvis quit school to focus on his creative work, and in 2009 he wrote and produced his debut album, an 18-song set called Humasyouhitch/Sonofabitch, which was released by the British indie label Wall of Sound. The album combined Jarvis' observational tunes with a cycle of songs reflecting the emotional turmoil of his parents' stormy relationship. Humasyouhitch/Sonofabitch received enthusiastic notices from the British music press, but it didn’t sell especially well, and Jarvis teamed with 25th Frame for his second release, Is the World Strange or Am I Strange? A track from the album, “Gay Pirates,” became an Internet sensation after Jarvis' low-budget video for the song was endorsed in a Twitter post by actor and author Stephen Fry, and subsequent airplay helped make the second album a commercial success. While continuing to tour, write songs, and record music, Jarvis has also been writing and directing a feature film, provisionally titled The Naughty Room. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi"

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