im just another victim of a small town bubble
tryin just to make it thru the pain and the struggle
the long nights
the dark days
the phone calls the funerals the flowers on the graves
i remember yesterday and  never can forget
all the family i lost and the cost of regret
.... and im a walk to my death
with the honor of the fallen embedded in every step

in the valley of lost dreams and lost friends
cold winters... rainy days that wont end
no difference i never seem to know when
i can trust the sunshine to flow again
many phone calls, bringin bad news
thinkin back to my memories when i had you
by my side at the bus stop chillin
or the school hallways crackin jokes all grinnin
i was livin the good life and didnt even know it
and i loved u like a sister but i never seemed to show it
and when it started snowin and u got up in your car
i didnt bother to tell you you shouldnt travel too far
and daddy got the call and he handed it to me
and the other end was cryin n screamin how could it be
you was gone just like that, theres nothin i could do
but sit and reminisce over u up at sky view

how can i even write a line about you
i dont know where to start so this gonna have to do
you was my rock my best friend my mother
the one who would love me above any other
when i was in college goin thru it havin flash backs
of when jen died you was there on the fast track
...drivin down 50 miles each way
just to tell me that you loved me and everything is ok
and where would i be if you wasnt there
to adopt me when biological didnt care
and raise me like your own bring me up into your home
give me somewhere to be- when i wouldve ended up alone
... you was an angel a saint
a gift to the world that the world took away
you was gone just like that, theres nothin i could do
but sit and reminisce over u up at sky view

big brother, my role model im so honored
to have had you in my life i dont wanna
have to think about that long ass night
when we drove down 95 just to see you fight
for your life on machines, it was dad you and me
..sittin in the room, watchin you struggle to breathe
bleedin in your brain, in a coma can't move
... the doctor told us there was nothin they can do
we pulled the plug and. u slipped away
and... i never thought that it would be this way
me and dad all alone in the house
with a tear in our eye and a sigh in our mouth
and you there on the couch in a box full of ashes
waitin to be burried next to momma and i'm mad
you was gone just like that, theres nothin i could do
but sit and reminisce over u up at sky view