Button Down Lyrics

I remember watching you get dressed for work

A vandal's smile in your button down long sleeve shirt

I wanted to be you so bad it hurt

I wouldn't trade those days for anything on earth

But

I remember drifting gently through the nights

Listening from upstairs to the bitter fights

Hit her hard, push her down, twist and turn the knife

That's when

I began to understand something wasn't right

As we grew up, you got worse every single day

When we screwed up well there was always hell to pay

It didn't matter what I did or didn't say

I started wishing on the nights to carry me away

Cause I'd sooner die than watch you fall from grace

Now I'm putting on my own button down long sleeve shirt

Getting ready for another long day at work

Like a martyr to a cause without any worth

Now you're protected from the jury but the judge still burns

And I'm afraid of letting anyone get too close

For fear that I will be the next son to explode

How could anyone be asked to share this load

With a kid still getting dressed in his father's clothes

But I'd rather die than watch you die alone

I remember watching you get dressed for work