Luyện nghe bài hát Lament for Lester Cousins

music and lyrics by Lund

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

Men introduced him to hard labour, moving earth and hay
Were all the that were open to the boy
And the same men showed our Lester Lucks appeal and blessed her
With a trusting young disciple to

With the gamblin the drinkin and the cocaine and the sinkin
That a man whos falling down
And pretty soon the fightin and the every night
And pills and losing his spirit on the ground

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

Lester now, Lester now, keep it together, we all want to see you
now, Lester now, hold it together, cuz your goodness is what the world needs
Lester now, Lester now, keep it together and 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 of us all, Lester, try not to fall with the fate of the world on the floor
And for the sake of us all, Lester, try not to fall with the hate of the as your whore

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

Hard at work and clean and sober fifteen come this October
All the vices of his had disappeared
Very little did he then that the young, out of control men
his motherd learned to dread would reappear

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

It take them long to find him or convict 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