The Man That Came Back

I was 6 years old Running from the sound In my nightgown Screaming through the walls He was angry She was trying I could hear it all TV up loud as it could go Just another night at home You were raising hell Can’t forget the smell Soaked into your clothes Hundred proof that Burnt through that cigarette smoke I always knew before you spoke How the night was gonna go Now you dive in saying you’re a different man But who you were, it made me who I am I still remember you blacked out, face down, asleep in your car And the violence, the sirens that rang in the dark And the last straw, the worst of all, the breaking of my mother’s heart Now since December You’ve shown up, say I’ve grown up You just want to see us You woke up, sober Said you found Jesus You don’t understand why I still hate the man that came back But you can talk to God about that It was 9 years ago It was broken glass, it was getting bad Didn’t wanna go But she couldn’t stay just to see the day she’d find you on the floor She couldn’t do it anymore And you swear you’ll never be that man again But who you were it made me who I am And I still remember you blacked out, face down, asleep in your car And the violence, the sirens that rang in the dark And the last straw, the worst of all, the breaking of my mother’s heart Now since December You’ve shown up, say I’ve grown up You just want to see us You woke up, sober Said you found Jesus You don’t understand why I still hate the man that came back But you can talk to God about that You can talk to God about that You can talk to God about that Yeah you can talk, you can talk You can talk to God about The mother, the brother, the family you broke And the daughter that grew up trusting no one And the bruises on her skin, the holes that you left in the wall You can talk to God about it all Ohh Ohh Ohh You can talk to God about it all