Family in Trouble

The dawn dawns bright in the christmas sky you haven't slept a wink
Standin starin out the window above the kitchen sink
The bacon turns in the microwave sizzlin like a fiend
And it's never goin back the way it was on Christmas eve

At times you sit and wonder who deserves the other more
your low down dirty husband or your fifteen year old whore
At times you wanna call the law, make'im pay for what he did
but his pay keeps you all in a home and'll cover his new kid
At times you sorta wish that the both of them would die
But you just can't stay mad at her, your heart soon softens like
The cat food spilled into the water bowl swelled up and turned to grey
but even when it dries back out it'll never be the same

The day shines bright through the clouds that float indifferently above
Casting shadows on the house and everything you're thinkin of
And on the distant fertile fields just waiting to be tilled
And on the world of desires that she'll never fulfill
The coming year you're prayin' not to come undone
Just sit and wait and contemplate how her life has become
The rusty treadmill on the patio won at the county fair
No matter how hard you run you'll never get nowhere