The in-laws are waiting the games begun The cell phone keeps ringing dont it hon The things arranged just to aggravate Dad And its amateur day on the old super The kids are strapped down like a half load of All safe in their car seats they fuss and gripe Well you cant hardly blame em it must be a the crosses off down in the ditch This ones got flowers, ones got a wreath This ones got a name painted underneath Was the road all up, were they going too fast Heres five in a left from the last holiday
Theres a rig just a throwin up spray Not legal to run on kind of a day But god damn the smokies and the wheelers too Stay offa my bumpers or the goes for you Therell be for him He wants it the most As he hauls it on out to the coast No turkey no gravy no Zinfandel You just stay over right and well get fine 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 make a damn Hes in for a holiday
Now shes yelling Shes to eat havin conniptions Cause wont take their seats But shes got em all gathered now under one With her loaded Shes get proof But do you to wear that Well I just see why pass the potatoesAw eat shit and die Did you hear about Ellen, leaving, you know How bout Packers, think itll snow? And the minute its over theyll like quail Off down the in the teeth of a gale Silent and shattered And to the core count themselves lucky They got through one holiday
The highway He in the rain He just lets it run down to soften the Of the blood on his leg From working that And he forget it In time for the holiday
Chicago at 9:52 In clean desert all baggy and loose Sits an Guardsman alone by the gate The sure looked different, in 1968
When he traveled with mom, time on a plane To visit some kin, hes their names But he remembers the soldiers, still in their teensIn their polished boots and their pressed army greens With the creases so sharp, and their so smooth But their eyes looked so heavy, he 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 smoke while he waits for his The uniforms different, but the remains To do like they tell you, dont a fuss Whys not an issue, so dont too much You just do what you have to, up and drive If you come later, well at least youre alive You can get you some help, you can with it then And life will be better, til it again
Cause theres something inside us that wont let us beIn stalks through our til its too dark to see And its damn as deadly as Texans on ice Lord they beat all Yall have a nice