Tough Love
he thinks
shooting doves
will make it
what it was …
better
and he’s mad
we ain’t coming
and won’t take no
knows what buttons
to press
blames his buddy’s wife
for his buddy’s absence
all along
yeah, what’s new
hard headed
and whinier
than any woman
he’ll tell ‘ya
all day
why his life’s
thatta way
he didn’t come
from money
bases were loaded
and he dropped
the ball … for her
and he thinks
that big ‘ole house
he bought
on all that land
makes her happy
makes his boys happy
makes him happy
but happy shouldn’t
be this hard
can’t tell him nothing
though
end of that bottle …
no, it ain’t gonna bring
your daddy back
ain’t gonna hold your family
tight at night
ain’t gonna take that hurt
you’ve been holding
outta here
ain’t gonna make-up for a childhood
that wasn’t your fault
people kill themselves
in myriad ways
quick and clean
slow and muddy
and it ain’t nobody
who can put you back
together
but the one
who tore you apart
TL