Layton howerton
It's a bittersweet legacy you left me to find
Everytime that i fall i feel you push from behind
18 years you been gone
18 years you're still around
How can you move me so much
From a hole in the ground
In that small frame house on the bible belt
I didn't know who you were
I never knew how you felt
Now i'm painting this picture
And i don't know the truth
Did you do what you wanted
Or what you had to do
And though your blood courses through my veins
I won't bare your cross cause i share your name
It's not the way we die it's the way that we live
And i can't tell anymore who i need to forgive
18 years
18 years
You'd sit at the table with your seagrams stare
Was it love or obligation that kept you there
I tried all your prescriptions for easing my pain
Whiskey drugs and women and they all feel the same
And though your blood runs through my veins
I won't bare you cross i won't share your shame
It's not the way we die it's the way we live
I can't tell anymore who i want to forgive
18 years
18 years
I still need you old man