But Breathing

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Unwanted, but breathing In the next room, sleeping My mother, she's crying And my father's been drinking In our run-down apartment Where the roof is still leaking He's cursing and cussing It's just the whiskey talking [Chorus 1] And I've got lots of memories like this one Of empty days and nights spent tired and lonesome But when I think back to all of it Well, it's all too much Well, it's all too much when you're just a little kid [Verse 2] My little brother, just a newborn baby In the image of my mother, says he's a blessing But not to my father, oh how he hates him An undeserving mistake, he calls him a burden [Chorus 2] And I've got lots of memories like this one Of picking sides and picking fights between them When I think back to all of it Well, it's all too much Well, it's all too much when you're just a little kid [Bridge] And when I wake up in the morning it all feels like a bad dream One that follows you and haunts you endlessly Yeah, haunts me endlessly [Verse 3] Well, broken and beaten from the abuse and the cheating The addiction, and the lying and the promise of leaving While my old man was a bastard, I admired and loved him And us two kids, we were born into a family, not a fortune, no