The are waiting the games have begun The cell phone keeps ringing answer it hon The whole things arranged to aggravate Dad And its amateur day on the old slab The kids are strapped down like a half load of All safe in their car they fuss and they gripe Well you cant hardly 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 down Was the road all iced up, were they going too Heres five in a left from the last holiday
Theres a three-trailer rig just a up spray Not legal to run on kind of a day But god damn the and the four wheelers too Stay my bumpers or the same goes for you Therell be for him He wants it the most As he it on out to the Oregon coast No turkey no no Zinfandel wine You just stay over right and well get along Hes missing the football, the fun Hed play the grandkids but hes off on a run And some on the radio singing his song But it dont a damn Hes in for a holiday
Now granny shes Shes to eat Shes conniptions Cause they wont take seats But shes got em all now under one roof her camcorder loaded Shes get proof But do you have to wear Well I dont see why Please pass the potatoesAw eat and die Did you hear about Ellen, shes leaving, you How those Packers, think itll snow? And the minute its over theyll like quail Off down the in the teeth of a gale and shattered And numb to the core They count themselves They got through one more
The highway He stands in the He just lets it run down to soften the Of the on his pant leg From working wreck And he wont it In time for the holiday
Chicago at 9:52 In clean desert camo all and loose Sits an Iowa Guardsman alone by the The sure looked different, in 1968
When he traveled with mom, time on a plane To visit some kin, hes forgotten their But he remembers the soldiers, still in their teensIn their spit polished boots and their pressed army the creases so sharp, and their faces so smooth But their eyes so heavy, he wondered how they could move Now hes got that same look, like his are black Hes in his mid forties and he has to go backAnd he cant even while he waits for his plane The different, but the mission remains To do like they tell you, dont make a not an issue, so dont think too much You just do you have to, shut up and drive If you come apart later, well at youre alive You can get you some help, you can deal it then And life be better, til it happens again
Cause theres something inside us that wont let us beIn through our days til its too dark to see And its damn as deadly as Texans on ice Lord they beat all have a nice holiday