mom told me everything that dies someday comes back
dad used to sing it to her in her sleep
so i got drunk and carved it on my chest when i found out he died last week
it's the memory not the pain that'll make you weep

3am highway bliss
first night drive with tess
she's a midnight blue goth chick
pitch black lipstick
she writes poems for sid viscous

she's sweet 16 rocking diamond blue candy rings
and the broken radio plays an old song frankie used to sing
everything that dies someday comes back
but you already knew that

took tess to see my daddy's grave on south elm
i remember these streets by all the mistakes we made on em
we break bread with my daddy's ghost and thats the only time i ever get to talk to him

i tell tess how me and frankie skinned our knees on company  hill
while my old man was dodging bullets outside a fifth street cheap hotel
didn't even know he was around
didn't know he was my dad till they put him in the ground

tess said she cried when her brother came back from the middle east
one arm
a jaw full of broken teeth
said they dropped a bomb on school children dancing in the street
how can that ever let him be

On st. patty's day mom said dad kissed her after he landed that job
all night long they ran victory laps around the city of god
30 days of heaven then sun went out
and dad was back on the streets begging for another chance to make his life count

so now i talk to god on pay phone's on the way home
ask him where he's been and why he left us all alone
and if he can see everything then he should take a look at my mom
he should give us back our dad and i never would've written this song.

mom said daddy died of a broken heart 
but i heard he died over 20 dollars in the back of midnight luke's shop
three bullets in the chest
one to the brain
some shrapnel in his ribcage
nothing here'll ever change

dad had a taste for bad luck and black rain
mom said from the start him and i were the same
i took a picture of her scattering his ashes in the rain
his body burnt to dust but you cant burn away the pain

now all this bad blood runs black and blue
my mom don't smile like she used to
its ok bloodshot eyes are what i'm used to 
and i promise i wont leave her cause thats what she's used to

she said daddy was half angel half devil
and when he drank he got mean
he didn't care for her
he didn't care for me
but at night i still close my eyes and pray to the darkness that he might come save me