Ernie Buck - Chip Pan Fire Lyrics

Searchlights called off at dawn
What was left of him is long gone
Sisters sit on the front lawn
Drunken mother fell asleep with the chip pan on
Again
And life moves on
Six years old meant something once
Maybe it still even does to you
Wasted so much time since
Wonder how you would've fared with the same chance
To live
Is all we got
Now and then remember when
Watched you from the window cycle up our street
Longer gone than you were here
Maybe it's my duty not to live in fear
And to love
The present tense