(Track #6 from Caught in the Middle)
D.E.A.D.
By
Frank Meyer
Verse
1
Somewhere in the
Midwest, in the land with all the lakes
There's a man who's come
to see the hearts of many break
To end the pain, he's
found a game with a straight and a simple theme
He calls it D.E.A.D., and
it means drugs end all dreams.
Chorus
And I wonder if
somewhere someone will play his game tonight
And I wonder if that
someone will come to see the light
'Cause as I walk these
empty streets as the day becomes twilight
The news I heard today
confirms this game of his is right.
Verse 2
Terry was a track star;
he won nearly every race
Everybody in our town
thought for sure he would go some place
Graduated high school,
he signed up with the Corp
He got engaged before he
left; who could ask for more.
He came home from boot
camp to see his family and friends
Little did we know, he
would not do this again
One night he went
fishing with his friends down on Black Creek
Too many beers, he fell
off the pier; they didn't find him for a week.
Chorus
Verse 3
Artie was a hero, a
small town local star
Lettered three sports,
top of the class, we knew that he'd go far
After high school and
college, he went on to med school
But life was so cruel,
for it took the tools of the kid who played by rules.
As I remember it was
spring on a balmy breezy night
Artie and his
bride-to-be shared an evening of delight
Singing songs at a stop
light, they were headed for downtown
When a drunk from a bar
broadsided the car, and paralyzed Art from the neck down.
Chorus
Verse 4
Karey was a student in my
tenth grade class
A cute kid with a quick
wit, she picked things up real fast
Did her homework, passed
the tests, she always got good grades
The day that she walked
out my door, I knew she had it made.
Then came Christmas, it
was in her senior year
A little party, nothing
fancy, shots of whiskey chased by beer
Laughing, dancing, havin' fun, feelin' wild and free
The report read that she
was dead, the car wrapped around a tree.
Chorus
Repeat Verse 1
©1998
Frank Meyer