Corb Lund - Lament For Lester Cousins - Sözleri

music and lyrics by Corb Lund





Lester Cousins left his brothers on a work truck filled with others 


Cuz his father’d left his mother years ago


And Lester’s mother took in lovers to feed and clothe his younger brothers 


So at thirteen years our Lester chose to go





Men introduced him to hard labour, moving earth and stacking hay 


Were all the options that were open to the boy


And the same men showed our Lester Lady Luck’s appeal and blessed her 


With a trusting young disciple to enjoy





With the gamblin’ came the drinkin’ and the cocaine and the sinkin’ 


That accompanies a man who’s falling down


And pretty soon the fightin’ and the whoring every night 


And pills and losing left his spirit on the ground





Well there comes a time when even hardened men need to believe in 


Something more and look within and be afraid


When a particularly rough night took his friend in one more knife fight 


For the first time in his hard life Lester prayed





Lester now, Lester now, keep it together, we all want to see you succeed


Lester now, Lester now, hold it together, cuz your goodness is what the world needs


Lester now, Lester now, keep it together and don’t lose that spirit of yours


And for the sake of us all, Lester, try not to fall with the weight of the world at your door


And for the sake of us all, Lester, try not to fall with the fate of the world on the floor


And for the sake of us all, Lester, try not to fall with the hate of the world as your whore





Well God led Lester to a lady who was finally worth the wait


He bought a ring and changed his ways and settled down


And he farmed his forty acres, raised a daughter, loved his Maker


Loved his wife and earned respect all through the town





Hard at work and clean and sober fifteen years come this October


All the vices of his past had disappeared


Very little did he know then that the young, out of control men 


That his mother’d learned to dread would reappear





Well his life and home were shattered and his wife and daughter battered 


When the kind he knew so well came back around


An incontainable aggression induced Lester to regress and 


Coldly murder those who’d raped the love he’d found





It didn’t take them long to find him or convict him or confine him 


To a cell block full of wounded prisoner doom


Because despite his mother’s will, her Lester Cousins was a killer now 


Who’d never live to leave the jailer’s tomb






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