I was six years old
Running from the sound of my nightgown
Screaming through the walls
He was angry, she was trying
I could hear it all
TV up loud as it could go
Just another night at home
You were rising, hell can't forget the smell
Sucked into your clothes 100 proofs
that burned through that cigarette smoke
Always knew before you spoke How the night was gonna go
Now you dive in saying you're a different man
I still remember you blacked out,
face down Asleep in your car and the violence
The sirens that rang in the dark And the last straw,
the worst of all
The breaking of my mother's heart And
now since December you've shown up
Self-grown up,
you just wanna see us You woke up sober,
said you found Jesus
You don't understand why I still hate the man that came back
But you can talk to God about that
It was nine years ago It was broken glass,
it was getting bad
Didn't wanna go
But she couldn't stay just to see the day
She finds you on the floor She couldn't do it anymore
And you swear you'll never be that man again
But who you were, it made me who I am
I still remember you blacked out,
face down Asleep in your car and the violence The
sirens that rang in the dark And the last straw,
the worst of all The breaking of my
mother's heart
And now since December
you've shown up Self-grown up,
you just wanna see us
You woke up sober,
said you found Jesus You don't understand why I still hate the man
that came back But you can talk to God about that
You can talk to God about that Yeah,
you can talk,
you can talk,
you can talk
to God about the mother,
the brother The family you broke and the daughter who grew
The one and the bruises on her skin
The ones that you left in the halls