Heaven's Only Days Down The Road

[iamnotafraid]

100 so miles from the Mobile River
Lord I can't have her so I got to kill her
Heaven's Only Days down the road

Liquor store down on the county line
Don't want all the land but what's next to mine
Heaven's only days down the road

Been insane since I was 9
Never was the cryin' but the fightin' kind
Oh yeah

Load up the gun full of regret
I ain't even pulled the trigger yet
Oh yeah

Lost all my faith a man can own
My hopes are empty an so is my soul
Heaven's only days down the road

Look at my fate in the paper now
I want to put her back but I don't know how
Heaven's only days down the road

Nobody wants me down there no more
Look at what I did to make them hate me for
Oh yeah

Can't blame the whiskey or my Mammy's ways
2 little girls are better off this way
Oh yeah

Heaven's only days down the road
Oh Heaven's only days down the road
Down the road. Down the road

(the sound of two shots fired ends the song)

Shelby Lynne's latest CD, Revelation Road

What do you write following a song like that?
A song that deals with the murder-suicide her
dad commited against her mother and then
himself back in 1986. I can't even imagine
how hard it was for her to sing about this.

Shelby hasn't disappointed on any of her
albums since before I Am Shelby Lynne,
and this one's no different. She is a true talent.