When I Was A Child

When I was a child

I spent hours in the back of a Dark Greyhound bus.

When I was a child

I heard ma father curse the witch

The neighborhood punchboard.

I squeezed my eyes shut really tight

Whenever I drove by the cemetery at night

But during the day I drank whiskey and smoked cigarettes

In the same cemetery that scared the shit out of me at night.

When I was a child

Afraid to go in the basement

Scared of what was hiding in the dark.

When I was a child I had a father

Who never knew me or saw me grow up.