Blood Brothers - Goodnight, Texas

Your husband and I

Were childhood blood brothers

Our difficult home situations

Would render us inseparable

Our mothers smoked pregnant

Our fathers either or died or disappeared

We’d stay up and take drugs and stargaze

And plan crimes that we never did

Your husband and I

Made promises at 17

To be old men with houseboats and grandchildren

Who would be childhood blood brothers like we were

Some fires fade out

When you need them for longer

When it’s freezing and the sun is still hours away

Who cannot be any stronger

Your husband met you

You really pulled him from the darkest place

And I had been in love before but he never had

It was beautiful to witness the downfall

Some fires burn out

Before they get stronger

I’m praying for oxygen to restart the ashes

That I cannot take any longer