The in-laws are waiting the games begun The cell keeps ringing dont answer it hon The whole arranged just to aggravate Dad And its amateur day on the old slab The kids are strapped down like a half of pipe All safe in their car seats fuss and they gripe Well you hardly blame em it must be a bitchCounting the crosses off down in the ditch ones got flowers, this ones got a wreath This ones got a name painted underneath Was the road all iced up, were they too fast Heres five in a circle from the last holiday
Theres a three-trailer rig just a up spray Not legal to run on kind of a day But god the smokies and the four wheelers too Stay my bumpers or the same goes for you be none for him He that wants it the As he hauls it on out to the Oregon No no gravy no Zinfandel wine You just stay over right and get along fine Hes the football, missing the fun Hed play with the but hes off on a run And some hats on the singing his song But it make a damn Hes in for a long
Now granny yelling Shes to eat havin conniptions Cause they wont take seats But shes got em all now under one roof her camcorder loaded Shes get proof But do you to wear that Well I just see why Please the potatoesAw eat shit and die Did you about Ellen, shes leaving, you know How bout those Packers, think itll And the minute its over theyll like quail Off down the freeway in the teeth of a Silent and shattered And to the core They count lucky They got one more holiday
The patrolman He in the rain He just it run down to soften the stain Of the blood on his leg From that wreck And he wont it In time for the next
Departing at 9:52 In clean camo all baggy and loose an Iowa Guardsman alone by the gate The place looked different, in 1968
When he traveled with mom, time on a plane To visit kin, hes forgotten their names But he remembers the soldiers, still in their teensIn their spit polished boots and pressed army greens With the so sharp, and their faces so smooth But their eyes looked so heavy, he how they could move Now hes got that look, like his insides are black Hes in his mid and he has to go backAnd he cant even smoke while he waits for his plane The different, but the mission remains To do like they tell you, dont make a Whys not an issue, so dont too much You just do what you have to, shut up and If you come apart later, well at youre alive You can get you help, you can deal with it then And will be better, til it happens again
Cause theres something inside us that wont let us beIn stalks through our days til its too to see And its damn near as deadly as on ice dont they beat all Yall have a nice