Numbers Game (feat. Becky Warren)

Screen door's torn the sky is gray

Four dirty little feet two more on the way

Rock bottom baby, that's you and me

Rents past due we got sixty-five dollars

So you head downtown and see Carlotta

Some days I wish were was a tree

 Oh it's a numbers game

 You start out high, you get low down

 There's broken down hearts all over this town

 Oh it's a numbers game

I was homecoming queen back in '96

But I stuck around town when momma got sick

By the time she checked out I was all alone

Growing up poor means growing up quick

And you don't meet a lot of folks on a double shift

Or lined up waiting at the clinic on your methadone

 Don't tell me to hold on

 That its brightest before the dawn

 Like counting drops of falling rain

 It's a numbers game

The sky is black my feet are wrecked

I smoke one last cigarette out on the steps

The kids are sleeping in a bed they've long outgrown

I walk past the kitchen to say goodnight

And I see your empty face in the TV light

I love you baby, more than you could ever know