Welcome Home Father Testo

Verse 1-The house smells musty
The front door has no lock
It swings from it's hinges
The windows have been hit by bullets and rocks
By reckless teens on drunken nights
And kids wanting to prove they're brave
There's no putting up fights
In a town where death lies behind the corner

Verse 2:
My father lived here once
It's hard to explain
Memories flood me
Even though I'd yet to come
I had an image of him
On a matress by the wood stove
By 2 of his brothers
Will the world ever know
How they had to rough it by?
Chorus:
A mother, A father, 5 kids, and 3 bedrooms
Barely making it by
He loved his kids to death
But thought about leaving them by and by
The oldest was a musically talented young boy
But with no hope for the future
Because his parents were too poor
For...

Transition:
The proper remedy for
A mentally battled young life
Debating over what he had was real
Or bullshit
He-I don't even know,
He-I-I wasn't there at all
But I just had these inspiring thoughts and
I couldn't let them go to waste
On imagining nothing at all...