Ain't Nobody Coming

Six months in I stopped countin' Eight months in I stopped prayin' Ten months in I stopped lookin' At the door when the key was swayin' They say you learn what hope is When hope is all you ain't got I learned what silence sounds like Through a steel and concrete knot

My brother wrote me once in March Said "Man, I can't make the drive" My wife sent papers in August Said "Don't call me when you arrive" The boys I ran with on the outside All took the deal and turned My lawyer quit 'fore Christmas And I ain't mad — I've learned

Ain't nobody comin' Ain't nobody callin' Ain't nobody writin' Ain't nobody stallin' The Lord ain't lookin' my way The judge ain't changin' his mind Ain't nobody comin' And I paid for every crime

There's a man three cells down from me Been in since '98 He says "Son, the sooner you know it The sooner you sleep straight" He says "The world you came from Ain't the world you'd come back to" I nodded in my bunk that night 'Cause I knew it was damn true

I don't blame my mama, she's passed now I don't blame the girl I left I don't blame the judge or the jury Or the boy I bled when I bled I blame me and the whiskey And the devil and the gun Ain't nobody comin' And I ain't the only one

You ever sit in a silence So loud it eats your name? You ever read a Bible And know the devil wrote your page? You ever pray to mama And know she can't pick up? Brother, that's the rhythm Of a man who drank the cup

Ain't nobody comin' But myself, in a way Ain't nobody comin' Except me, every day The man I was who did it The man I am who stayed Ain't nobody comin' But the two of us, to pray Ain't nobody comin' But the two of us, to pray

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