This song always reminded me of my dad he was born in 1944 and Served in Vietnam he’s been gone for four years now and I miss him every day.

A.M. RADIO

What do I have to lose
what substance find in gain?
The worst thing that can happen 
Is I crash and fall again

But nothing can compare to 
The initial drowning pains
When my world died before my eyes
And love spat in my face
And I prayed to God he’d send a car
To wipe me off the pavement.
Knowing I was homeless
on my phone I left a note
and locked it on the screen 
I wrote: If you’re reading this 
God has granted me my plea
So don’t you shed a tear
When fervent cries deserved an ear
If you cared just for a second 
you’ll smile when you hear
Know that this is for the best
That I faded without fear
And that for once an angry God
Granted pardon 
A bit of rain after years

And as I walked through snowflakes
That melded with my tears
I approached my final stop in silence
my prayers disappeared 
And in their place a fire crept up
A rage that knew no years
A boundless welling furnace 
Filled with curses, filled with gall 
I’d never known so sour a taste
That consumed me bones and all
I no more had a resting place, a home I could call
I screamed out to the sky in hopeless agony
Not the plaintive sigh of Job but desperate blasphemy
How could you take my warmth
The only hope I’d ever found
And refuse to give me death
Only bitter life to crown it?
How could you give me beauty
Just to kill it in my veins
And let the jagged pieces 
be lodged inside my brain
And strangle all the blood that flowed
To leave me cold and gray
To keep my body live through stroke
As my consciousness decayed?

Charlie Boy

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