I Never Had a Sister

I NEVER HAD A SISTER

I never had a sister

Me and four brothers made up the family

It was high school that I missed her

To tell me what the other girls never saw in me

I got married when I was twenty

More like sister really

And less like a lover

But it didn't last too long

We sang our black swan song

She moved to Florida and I ran for cover

I sometimes had a mother

Seems like she left me too when she left the old man

She'd come back with my baby brother

They tried to hold to something that they never really had

So twice a month at her mobile home manor

Forced to face each other by acourt decree

I learned to love my mother

When I finally figured out that she loved me

I never had a savior

Though I'd pray to beat the devil

Through the lightning and the thunder

A temporary change of behavior

I'd lift my prayer's up to the ceiling

But the cracks would make me wonder

Now I wander through the woods by the river

And make my altar out of earth, stone and wood

There's one thing 'bout a savior

If you ain't lost, a savior can't do you any good

If you ain't lost, a savior can't do you any good