The are waiting the games have begun The phone keeps ringing dont answer it hon The whole things arranged just to Dad And its day on the old super slab The kids are strapped like a half load of pipe 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 ones got a name painted down underneath Was the road all up, were they going too fast Heres five in a circle left from the holiday
Theres a rig just a throwin up spray Not to run on this kind of a day But god damn the smokies and the wheelers too Stay offa my or the same goes for you Therell be for him He that it the most As he hauls it on out to the coast No turkey no gravy no Zinfandel You just stay right and well 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 dont a damn Hes in for a holiday
Now shes yelling ready to eat Shes conniptions they wont take their seats But shes got em all gathered now under one her camcorder loaded Shes gonna get But do you to wear that Well I just see why Please pass the eat shit and die Did you hear Ellen, shes leaving, you know How bout those Packers, think itll 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 got through one more holiday
The patrolman He in the rain He just lets it run down to the stain Of the blood on his leg From working that And he forget it In for the next holiday
Chicago at 9:52 In clean desert all baggy and loose Sits an Iowa 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 creases so sharp, and their faces so But their eyes looked so heavy, he wondered how 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 remains To do like tell you, dont make a fuss not an issue, so dont think too much You just do what you have to, shut up and If you come apart later, well at least youre 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 wont let us beIn 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