The Man That Came Back

I was six 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

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 nine 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 'bout

The mother, the brother, the family you broke

And the daughter who grew up trusting no one

And the bruises on her skin, the holes that you left in the walls

You can talk to God about it all

Oh

Oh

You can talk to God about it all