I woke up sweating in the sun

Sprawled across my big brothers grave

Shaking with drunk and sleep

I crawled to my feet, walked up into the shade

Of an young elm tree,

Must have been planted since the last we came

Vicki, My mom and me

Cleaned the dirt from the plaque that said his name



Walking to my girlfriends car

It came back down on me

Yeah

I guess i fell to my knees

To keep from falling face first into the dream

A vision that it had

Twisting out of the after afternoon sky

I didn't know it then

But it was 13 years to the day he died



He held his hand in me

Like brothers we walk (we walked)

To the colorless of the world of a alcohol dream

I'd talked for hours

Trying to break through the silence that he held to me

Then he started away, turned his head, Keep it up so you can die like me



Yeah so you can die like me



Ever since my brother OD'd

I drifted all over from town to town to town

Every place i go It's always the same

I keep doing junk i keep going down



Yeah, my mother got religion

My sisters gave up

Man, I just gave up too

I just died inside

Don't want to die like George

Don't want to die like George



Everybody says theres things to see

Everybody's pointing their finger at me



I woke up driving after another black out

from another bad drug

I can't shake this hell that i made for myself

And every other life i took



I see my sisters son walk the ground I walked

He's only 16

If he don't learn from my mistakes

He's going to waste away

Going to die like me

He's going to die like me

He's going to die like me