The man they need the most

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