The in-laws are the games have begun The cell phone keeps dont 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 of pipe All safe in car seats they fuss and they gripe Well you cant hardly blame em it must be a bitchCounting the crosses off down in the ones got flowers, this ones got a wreath This got a name painted down underneath Was the road all iced up, they going too fast Heres five in a circle left from the holiday
Theres a three-trailer rig just a 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 that wants it the As he hauls it on out to the coast No turkey no no Zinfandel wine You stay over right and well get along fine Hes missing the football, the fun Hed with the grandkids but hes off on a run And some hats on the singing his song But it make a damn Hes in for a holiday
Now shes yelling Shes to eat Shes havin Cause they wont take seats But shes got em all gathered now one roof With her loaded gonna get proof But do you have to that I just dont see why Please pass the eat shit and die Did you hear about Ellen, shes leaving, you How bout Packers, think itll snow? And the minute its over theyll scatter like Off down the freeway in the teeth of a Silent and shattered And to the core They count lucky got through one more holiday
The highway He in the rain He just lets it run down to the stain Of the on his pant leg working that wreck And he wont it In time for the next
Departing Chicago at In clean desert camo all baggy and Sits an Guardsman alone by the gate The place looked different, in 1968
he traveled with mom, first time on a plane To some kin, hes forgotten their names But he remembers the soldiers, still in their teensIn their spit polished boots and their army greens With the so sharp, and their faces so smooth But their looked so heavy, he wondered how they could move Now hes got same look, like his insides are black Hes in his mid forties and he has to go backAnd he cant even while he waits for his plane The uniforms different, but the remains To do like tell you, dont make a fuss Whys not an issue, so think too much You just do what you have to, up and drive If you come apart later, at least youre alive You can get you some help, you can with it then And life will be better, til it happens
Cause theres something inside us that wont let us beIn stalks through our days til its too to see And its near as deadly as Texans on ice Lord they beat all Yall have a holiday