My Son Is Gone

from Long Drives To Nowhere Fast: Live, Raw, & Unpredicted by Marco!

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Where my son?
"Don't come back."
I wanted all of it all
I wanted a big ol' house with a white picket fence, and a wife, to boot
And a son to call my own...but he done run the coop...

One night we get to fightin'
And he don't wanna stay no more, and he done shouted from the top of his lungs,
"I aint got no reason to stay no more! And dear old dad..i'm heading out..."

He done gone head out west, or to the east...I do not know...
He got his pride with a suitcase of wine, checkers on the side...
He done gone packed two shirts, and one pair of jeans and then he fled
So fathers out there...please be good to your sons...

After months have gone, my wife, she's a ghost...
She aint got no smile or warmth in her skin
She does dry all of our clothes and sheets outside the back, and i've never seen someone so plain...in the face before...

So i held her dear, and I whispered in her ear,
"Don't worry dear you did nothing wrong. It was my fault, maybe it's best if he fled the coop..."

Did he move out west? Or did he go to the east? I do not know...
The corn fields in Idaho, in the midwest? No I do not know...

For all I can figure out myself
He's living in the town next over...
Who am I to judge? Who am I to blame?
But myself and my son for foolish games...

But no matter where he is today...
Kin will be kin and there's no one to save...
...anything other than that...

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from Long Drives To Nowhere Fast: Live, Raw, & Unpredicted, released October 18, 2016

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