"Nobody Is A Lost Cause" lyrics

My buddy Jeff blew his brains out on the south shore of the lake
A lifetime of whatever was more than he could take
He helped me build my house
He helped a lot of folks
He gave his time and his money
He was perpetually broke

A few months before he did it, I was deep inside a hole
Shame-filled for the things I had done
He was the only one that saw me lost in the abyss
Don't remember it exactly, but he said something like this:

Everybody is broken, sad, and alone
Everybody is drifting along without a home
Everybody is shattered and burdened with flaws
But nobody is a lost cause

He had a tattoo on his arm of a stupid cartoon man
Poking out from behind a little wall
If you asked him what it was, he'd say
That's Murphy, you know Murphy's Law?
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong

And it did, and it will again and again
For as long as we are all alive
When a person is stuck in a terrifying pit
Only thing you can do is try to help them out of it

Everybody is broken, sad, and alone
Everybody is drifting along without a home
Everybody is shattered and burdened with flaws
But nobody is a lost cause