Verse 1
Old glass stains on the pine
Broken picture frame by the kitchen sink
Used to be a better man
Before the dark clouds took my hand
Bottle was a cold companion
Running from the shame and a shallow pride
The kids would hide when I walked in
Wore my failure like a second skin
Pre-Chorus
Sheriff knocked at half past ten
Told me Jamie took a turn on the ridge
Shattered steel and a hospital bed
Words I never should have let go unsaid
Chorus
But the cycle stops tonight
I’m washing out the poison and the regret
Gonna be the shade in their heat
Gonna be the ground beneath their feet
Picking up the pieces that I broke apart
Fixing every hole inside a family heart
I am trading in the ghosts
To become the man they need the most
Verse 2
Three hundred days since the pour
Holding on to hope and a steady hand
The garden's green behind the fence
Waking up to make some better sense
Jamie’s running in the backyard
Laughter sounds a lot like a brand new life
She doesn't flinch when I come home
Never going back to being alone
Pre-Chorus
Strength was something I had lost
Buried in the bottom of a bourbon well
Now I stand up tall and true
Keeping every promise that I made to you
Chorus
Cause the cycle stops tonight
I’m washing out the poison and the regret
Gonna be the shade in their heat
Gonna be the ground beneath their feet
Picking up the pieces that I broke apart
Fixing every hole inside a family heart
I am trading in the ghosts
To become the man they need the most
Bridge
It took a tragedy to see
The hollow wreck I used to be
Now the bottle’s dry as bone
And the light is always on at home
Chorus
Yeah the cycle stops tonight
I’m washing out the poison and the regret
Gonna be the shade in their heat
Gonna be the ground beneath their feet
Picking up the pieces that I broke apart
Fixing every hole inside a family heart
I am trading in the ghosts
To become the man they need the most