The Ballad of Lily and Tres - Brett Dennen

Here come a song about star crossed lovers

Named Lily and Tres

Two kids in the barrio

Via east LA

Lily always looked at him like a brother

'Til one day something changed

He started acting all moonstruck

You know the movie with young Nick Cage

Well one love was the song she played

In her bedroom when she took him all the way

With a Princess Bride poster on the wall

And her parents at the end of the hall

«Not even death can stop true love

It only delays it for a while»

«I get crushes sometimes

But none of them ever lasted

I miss you all the time

And I’m smoking on your ashes

Baby you and I are soul mates

From the same place

That doesn’t happen every day»

Lily always knew that she wanted his baby

And they tried and tried

Even through all the chemo

Oh my my

She caught a feeling that she remembered

In her father’s Dodger blue

Laying on his lap looking up at the man

He turned into

Well young love is life and death

And that’s what it was 'til his very last breath

And a light flashed above the bed

With the rest of her life ahead

«Not even death can stop true love

It only delays it for a while»

«I get crushes sometimes

But none of them ever lasted

I miss you all the time

And I’m smoking on your ashes

Baby you and I are soul mates

From the same place

That doesn’t happen every day»

This is the story 'bout star crossed lovers

Named Lily and Tres

Cupid hit the bullseye

Somewhere in east LA