Leave the Cap Off the Bottle

Patty got loaded and she went home with Jay.
He left her with a headache, wouldn't go away.
She couldn't think about what it would do to Paul,
broke into her mom's house and wrote on the wall.

She wrote, Mom I really miss you, just wish you were here,
Need to scream out loud, need to feel someone near.
She wrote for hours then she laid on that bed,
now her mom's still gone but so's the pain in her head.

So leave the cap off the bottle, and talk to me.
Leave the cap off the bottle, and talk to me.
Leave the cap off your bottle and talk to me,
Leave nothin out, just open up and be free.
....be free...

I don't know how to save her, Paul said to me,
Don't feel right to keep her, or to set her free.
Pretty child feels like a wounded cat in my yard,
no money for vet bills, it's too damn hard.

Worrying about what life gives us to deal
Won't pay your bills, won't help her to heal.
He took a long pull, then he grinned a bit,
He said, I couldn't even teach my dog to sit.

So leave the cap off the bottle, and talk to me.
Leave the cap off the bottle, and talk to me.
Leave the cap off your bottle and talk to me,
Leave nothin out, just open up and be free.
....be free...

One arm round an angel, the other gloved in red,
she haunts his dreams, won't leave his head.
He used to think her message was straight from god,
but since a phone call would do, now he thinks it odd.

He said, I told Patty's mother bout my doubts on the cross,
how could I say that to the dying? It was her final loss.
I took her ashes to our bench painted 'God walks these streets,'
get this weight off my chest he spoke long and drank deep.

So leave the cap off the bottle, and talk to me.
Leave the cap off the bottle, and talk to me.
Leave the cap off your bottle and talk to me,
Leave nothin out, just open up and be free.
....be free...