Bone deep

I think about you often

I think this is the year

That you'll be gone from me

About as long as you were here

I know you had some problems

And now I've got some too

And every year I feel a little more like you

And I hear people talkin'

About their family scars

And how it's hard to function

With their lives the way they are

'cause memories are painful

And time don't always heal

But I believe you taught me how to cry and how to feel

And I guess we never talked enough

Sometimes you got mad, sometimes you drank too much

We weren't always perfect with our family stuff

But the thing that kept us goin' was a bone deep, family, real big love

I turn on my receiver

And watch what's there to see

But Ward and June and Beaver

Were only on TV

And out here in the real world

It just never gets that good

But damn I know you tried so hard and gave us all you could

I don't know what happens

With parents and their kids

Maybe Eve and Adam

Were both insensitive

And passed it on to Able

And passed it on to Cain

And passed it on and passed it on

I guess I can't complain