Quarterflash - Goodbye Uncle Buzz lyrics

I was just fifteen, at my cousins - we were playing When we found Uncle Buzz dead in the basement Dad shut the door and no one said that word - that word We found a note that he wrote on the mantle And I felt like sh** 'cause I wanted his piano But I got his records and his arch-top Kay guitar Goodbye Uncle Buzz I know I should've cried But I couldn't just because Goodbye Uncle Buzz everything's covered But nothing's what is was Nothing's what it was - nothing's what it was The paper said he died from hypertension And the word, 'suicide' - was never mentioned Mom said it was his heart I guess it was in a way - in a way I played his records on our Sears turntable Heard Billie Holiday, Sam Cooke, and Mavis Staples And I tried his old guitar But it wasn't what the Beatles played anyway Goodbye Uncle Buzz I know I should've cried But I couldn't just because Goodbye Uncle Buzz everything's covered But nothing's what is was Nothing's what it was - nothing's what it was It was ten years later met my cousins at the station But nobody said a word about the basement Though everybody there had a drop of Uncle Buzz in our blood And now and then I find I think about my uncle And our mothers and our fathers and our secrets in the basement And the children in the dark, the children in the dark The children in the dark, the children in the dark Goodbye Uncle Buzz I know I should've cried But I couldn't just because Goodbye Uncle Buzz everything's covered But nothing's what is was Nothing's what it was - nothing's what it was