She said she’d leave me if I didn’t quit my smoking
I said something’s are best left unwritten and unspoken
So, I turned to drinking and getting high
That way I can give her an alibi

She said she didn’t like alcohol
So, I was sober by the fall
By winter I was a new man
One that I couldn’t stand

I tried to quit my drinking
But that just left me overthinking
Of days to come and day’s gone
Now I sleep out on the lawn

Truth, is I needed her more than cigarettes
It feels like I’ve been stabbed by a bayonet
Embers turn to ash
And she was gone in a flash

I made a promise to her brown eyes
But I could see through her lies
Brown and Blue make muddy water
I would have been a ****** father

I look down at twelve in the pack leaving town
Not a clue as to where I’m bound
Ash burns fall on my lap
My baby girl is nestled in the back for a nap

Tears fall down my cheek
and I start to feel weak
I may have lost a lover
But that baby girl has lost a mother