Last Drop Goodbye

Back in ninety-eight by the rusted chain-link fence

You kissed my forehead,

said you'd return when class ends

I watched your taillights vanish in the morning gray

That was the last time that I saw you walk away

(walk away...)

Oh, the yellow bus is humming in the cold

Waiting for a story never told

And the leaves keep falling

on the mountain clay Why did you leave me on that autumn

day?

Two years of silence then the kitchen landline rang

His shaking voice was like a iron gate that slammed

Your stepdad told me that you'd passed away in sleep

He said the sickness was a secret we must keep

(all those lies...) Sixteen winters passed until the paper broke

Unveiling all the poison hidden in the smoke

He was the monster hiding right behind my door

And the Wilkes county deputy

swept it off the floor

Oh, the yellow bus is humming in the cold

Now I know the story never told

And the truth is bleeding

through the mountain clay He took my mother on that autumn

day (he took you away) No more secrets in the Wilkes County

clay (rest easy

now...)