Sober
They buried my granddaddy outside the reservation parish
My mama wouldn't come cause of things he said
When she got married
My uncle from the next town sang some songs just a capella
Begging the Creator to welcome him into his new dwelling
All that I could think of as that box went in the ground
Is when I could get a drink
And how long my cousins would stick around
See I already know that I won't get much older
Than twenty two or three
If I can't manage to get sober
My best friend wrapped his motorcycle clear around a tree
A month ago one night
When we took methamphetamine
Two hundred years ago white men came into this country
Bringing guns and whiskey and teaching the People about money
When money couldn't tempt em they gave the children blankets
Killed em off with smallpox
And they expected us to thank them
I already know that I won't get much older
Than twenty two or three
If I can't manage to get sober
My best friend never made it home from the hospital that night
So I get messed up each day so I can celebrate his life
If I never make it to that nameless unmarked road
That's been the way to the next place
For the souls that have gone before me
I hope they'll lay my bones down by this peaceful kindly river
She'll wash away my sins
And she can offer me forgiveness
Forgiveness
Forgiveness
My mama wouldn't come cause of things he said
When she got married
My uncle from the next town sang some songs just a capella
Begging the Creator to welcome him into his new dwelling
All that I could think of as that box went in the ground
Is when I could get a drink
And how long my cousins would stick around
See I already know that I won't get much older
Than twenty two or three
If I can't manage to get sober
My best friend wrapped his motorcycle clear around a tree
A month ago one night
When we took methamphetamine
Two hundred years ago white men came into this country
Bringing guns and whiskey and teaching the People about money
When money couldn't tempt em they gave the children blankets
Killed em off with smallpox
And they expected us to thank them
I already know that I won't get much older
Than twenty two or three
If I can't manage to get sober
My best friend never made it home from the hospital that night
So I get messed up each day so I can celebrate his life
If I never make it to that nameless unmarked road
That's been the way to the next place
For the souls that have gone before me
I hope they'll lay my bones down by this peaceful kindly river
She'll wash away my sins
And she can offer me forgiveness
Forgiveness
Forgiveness
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