When the Pills Wear Off

Father forgive me for what I have done

Drove 200 miles for six inches of love

And he shined like the neon in the town's only bar

Slick as the needle and slim as the scar

I lost friends to heroin, plenty more to lovin' them

Strung out on the highway like we couldn't read the signs

Now that I am older and burn a little colder

I know how to read between the lines

But the only time I get these guilty thoughts

Is when the pills wear off

And what I called a love affair

They say was a death of despair

They say I'll get over him I just need time

I think Jesus sent an angel, stuck needles in his thigh

And the old freights trains, they whistle and whine

They shake the whole damn house, like we did when he was alive

I lost friends to heroin, plenty more to lovin' them

Strung out on the highway like we couldn't read the signs

Now that I am older and burn a little colder

I know how to read between the lines

But the only time I get these guilty thoughts

Is when the pills wear off

And what I called a love affair

They say was a death of despair

Mother don't ask me the thing things I have done

It's selfish to fall for yourself in someone

I know that I want him and always will

I don't think he could have known that it was fentanyl

But the only time I get these guilty thoughts

Is when the pills wear off

And what I called a love affair

They say was a death of despair

The only time I get these guilty thoughts

Is when the pills wear off