**Title: Grump ** **[Intro]** They called him Grump Lived on the outskirts of town Old scars covered his face A lonely man, always down **[Verse 1]** He sat on a bench in the park Where the old flagpole stood Folks tried to understand him But they didn't think they could He’d mumble at them a curse Then turn away from their eyes But when that flag came down His salute would always rise I found an old news paper In a drawer was a box one day From a house long gone Where the memories stayed It told of a special soldier They all thought was dead And the war that never ended That played out in his head **[Chorus- build up]** Grump was not his name He's a man beneath the pain A hero burned by fire And left out in the rain The world saw only scars God saw what remained And Heaven kept on weepin’ Grump is not your name **[Verse 2 ]** His real name, Glen Lavigne A teacher before the war Had a wife and baby girl Worth coming home for But the letters stopped coming And the news came black They sent his dog tags home Said he wasn’t coming back Years spent in a prison With the devil’s own men He played dead one morning And then rose to fight again Brought brothers home living But when he reached his door His wife had moved on And His life was no more **[Chorus intense ]** Grump was not his name This man beneath the pain A hero burned by fire And left out in the rain The world saw only scars God saw what remained And Heaven kept on weeping Grump is not your name **[Verse 3 ]** One Sunday morning By the old church stairs There was a little blind girl Who was crying over there He asked her ever so softly Why it was she felt so low She said, “You wouldn’t care” He said, “How do you know?” He told her, “God can use What we don’t understand Sometimes broken people Help the other broken stand You may not see the road But child, please hear me plain One day you'll see golden shores and know why Christ was slain” **[Bridge]** Her mama came a runnin Then froze there in the door Staring at the old man Like she’d seen him before She said, “Are you Glen Lavigne?” His whole world just shook [she said]“That was my daddy’s name That I found in this picture book” He whispered, “What’s your name?” She cried, “Pearl Grace May Mama took me from this town When they said you’d passed away This little girl here is Belinda Your blood just the same” That's when the old man fell crying When she said her daughters name **[Final Chorus ]** Grump was not his name He was a father lost in pain A soldier God kept breathing Through the fire and the rain The world saw only scars But God saw what remained And it took a little blind angel To bring him home again **[Outro]** Sometimes God takes the broken And makes their sorrow known not meant for them but someone else And that's what Grump was shown
