Luyện nghe bài hát Lament for Lester Cousins

music and by Corb Lund

Lester Cousins his brothers on a work truck filled with others
Cuz his fatherd left his mother ago
And Lesters mother took in lovers to and clothe his younger brothers
So at thirteen our Lester chose to go

Men introduced him to hard labour, earth and stacking hay
Were all the options were open to the boy
And the same men showed our Lester Lady Lucks and blessed her
a trusting young disciple to enjoy

With the came the drinkin and the cocaine and the sinkin
That accompanies a man whos falling
And pretty soon the fightin and the every night
And pills and losing left his on the ground

Well there comes a when even hardened men need to believe in
more and look within and be afraid
When a particularly rough night took his in one more knife fight
For the first in his hard life Lester prayed

now, Lester now, keep it together, we all want to see you succeed
Lester now, Lester now, hold it together, cuz your is what the world needs
Lester now, Lester now, keep it and dont lose that spirit of yours
And for the sake of us all, Lester, try not to fall with the weight of the at your door
And for the sake of us all, Lester, try not to fall the fate of the world on the floor
And for the sake of us all, Lester, try not to with the hate of the world as your whore

Well God led Lester to a who was finally worth the wait
He bought a ring and changed his and settled down
And he farmed his forty acres, raised a daughter, his Maker
Loved his wife and earned respect all through the

Hard at work and clean and sober fifteen years come October
All the vices of his past had
Very little did he know that the young, out of control men
That his motherd learned to dread would

Well his and home were shattered and his wife and daughter battered
When the kind he knew so well back around
An incontainable aggression induced to regress and
Coldly those whod raped the love hed found

It didnt take them long to find him or him or confine him
To a cell full of wounded prisoner doom
Because despite his mothers will, her Lester was a killer now
Whod never to leave the jailers tomb