Frightened Sally sent a text
to his phone, said “I don’t know what I want anymore”
He was working hard to buy
her a home as she head for the proverbial door
She had seen a wake of broken
lives ‘cuz her daddy lived hard and fast
Couldn’t take the risk of
being of being alone so she head it off at the pass
The hurtin’s gonna come her
way
The hurtin’s gonna come any
way
It had been about an 8 years
time since the bottle took him for a spin
6 of those were spent
repairing the ruins of what he’d done and what he’d been
Went to work to find a note
on his desk said, “supply is up but demand’s thin”
Packed his locker from a 30-year
job, drank the whiskey down and moved to gin
The hurtin’s gonna come his
way
The hurtin’s gonna come any
way
They would say those things
you can’t take back, the kind of things that take off years
They said their goodbyes 20
years ago when she said she couldn’t take the tears
Set a spiteful course to
knotch his belt with some one’s daughter barely 21
Now he wonders what to draw
upon giving girl advice to their son
The hurtin’s gonna come her
way
The hurtin’s gonna come any
way
