Night Fright

It was the evening of New Years

You could hear a pin drop as my son answered the phone

It's the police my son said, as he passed it to his mother's hand

Soon Dad will be home won't that be just grand.

For they had been waiting all night for me to come home

I was just out with the guys just getting stoned

How was I to know they would be of anguished fright?

As they sat with their dreaded fears all through night.

They came to the hospital to see for themselves

It seems because of an accident I was not in Good health

I was in a coma and having bad dreams

Oh dear God if you just take away the screams

The ringing my ears as if time had no end

A deathly message to my mind it does send

Why didn't I listen to my family of love?

Then maybe I would not hear these screams from above

I was only out with the guys to have a good time

It was not my fault I did not see that double line

We only had a few drinks or was it more

My mind so mixed up my head is so sore

Why is my family and friends seem to be laughing at me

Yet the tears in their eyes I can so plainly see

This is not a time to laugh, I am in pain

It seems to be me that they're all putting the blame on me

The room is getting darker I can just about see

Why is it this morbid cold air now surrounds me?

Open this door can't you see I am not dead

It's just a slight pain I now have in my head

Why won't they listen to my cries and pleads

If only my heart would beat, instead of bleed

At last they have come to set me free

Why are they putting these fancy clothes on me?

The time is passing so fast I can just about see

Why are all my loved ones crying over me?

All I can hear is the screams and their cries

One would think that I had just died

It's morning now I must have fell asleep

Why is this bed they gave me so soft and so deep?

At last he pain is gone and I lie here alone

Beneath myself dug grave and inscriptive stone

Forgive me God I was just one with the guys

If I had not hat those drinks I would be alive

I should have listened to my children when they said

Please don't drink or drive Daddy or soon you will be dead.