The are waiting the games have begun The cell phone keeps ringing dont it hon The whole arranged just to aggravate Dad And its day on the old super slab The kids are strapped down like a half load of All safe in their car seats fuss and they gripe Well you cant hardly blame em it must be a bitchCounting the crosses off in the ditch This got flowers, this ones got a wreath This got a name painted down underneath Was the all iced up, were they going too fast Heres five in a left from the last holiday
Theres a three-trailer rig just a throwin up Not legal to run on this of a day But god the smokies and the four wheelers too Stay offa my bumpers or the goes for you be none for him He that it the most As he hauls it on out to the coast No turkey no no Zinfandel wine You just stay over and well get along fine Hes the football, missing the fun Hed play the grandkids but hes off on a run And hats on the radio singing his song But it make a damn Hes in for a long
Now granny yelling ready to eat Shes conniptions they wont take their seats But got em all gathered now under one roof With her camcorder gonna get proof But do you have to that I just dont see why Please the potatoesAw eat shit and die Did you hear Ellen, shes leaving, you know How bout those Packers, think snow? And the minute its over scatter like quail Off down the freeway in the of a gale and shattered And numb to the core They themselves lucky They got through one more
The highway He in the rain He just lets it run down to soften the Of the on his pant leg From working that And he forget it In for the next holiday
Departing at 9:52 In desert camo all baggy and loose Sits an Iowa Guardsman alone by the The sure looked different, in 1968
When he traveled with mom, first on a plane To visit some kin, hes forgotten their But he remembers the soldiers, still in their teensIn their spit boots and their pressed army greens With the creases so sharp, and their faces so 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 forties and he has to go backAnd he even smoke while he waits for his plane The uniforms different, but the mission To do they tell you, dont make a fuss Whys not an issue, so dont too much You just do you have to, shut up and drive If you come later, well at least youre alive You can get you some help, you can deal with it And life will be better, til it again
Cause theres something inside us that let us beIn stalks through our days til its too dark to see And its damn near as as Texans on ice Lord they beat all Yall have a holiday