Daddy's road

 

Daddy I'm just tired
I just can't catch a break
My stomach is empty
And my hands have the shakes
It's been a long damned road
That I can't seem to escape
The miles been hard
And my body it aches
Remember this son
You'll be glad when it ends
Take what you can
Give the rest to your kin
A man feels power in a gun
Yet can kill with his pen
Your words carry such weight
They'll make your amends
And when it's all said
You'll make them your friends
Nothing gets better with age
Just harder to begin
So start this today
Type away
And hit send
But daddy I'm tired
I just can't carry on
I think I'm losing myself
Wondering where I went wrong
Getting hard to stay straight
I could sure use some help
Before we share in your fate
Or I end it myself
And they bury me deep
With the last of my name

Daddy im sorry
I can't catch a break
I'm steady losing hope
Everybody around me
Is dead or on dope
These feelings I can't shake
It's coming up fast
I'm afraid I'm up next
The life I always wanted
Well it soon will pass
And I'll be forever haunted
Still stuck in the past
I'm worried to death
Too worried to ask
Too demoralized to try
Hitting empty at last
Never made it off of this road
Before it was my turn to die

See daddy I told you
I'll be there real soon
The worst of it's over
Those days with a spoon
They took it real heavy
My last bit of room
Squeezed out of baggies
That formed a platoon
An army of plastic
It filled up the carpets
And slid into the bed
It was becoming a tomb
No matter how much I begged
I just couldn't leave
No matter how much I bled
and covered it with sleeves
The blood was still shed
I just could not believe
there might be a henge
That opened the coffin
That slayed the syringe
Destroyed all the cotton
And forced the cage to an end