Comin' home with alcohol again
Maybe this time it'll be different
Maybe he'll come home empty handed
Maybe he'll come home his old self again
But no, he comes back with a bottle of gin
Every Friday comes a paycheck and with it comes more booze
There's bills to pay and hell to pay and everything to lose
Lyin' in your room, you know the sad truth
There's bills to pay and hell to pay and everything to lose
Daddy couldn't pay the bills
So they shut off the electric
Daddy bought a generator
And he kept it in the basement
Well if you know anything, you know what happens when
Gas burns in an enclosed space and someone breathes it in
Thirteen years old, little Billy was just a kid
Thirteen years old, look what his daddy did
To him
He's a hero though
His family didn't know
That anything was wrong
Until he passed on