pocket full of arrowheads
to keep me safe
My granddaddy found them
on the shores of White Lake
It says they're good luck
so I know that they're fake
Still I carry them with me
each step that I take
See, granddaddy worked
from the age of 16
Hauling up copper from out of the deep
A trip at a time, it got harder to breathe
So one night in town,
he collapsed on the street
I know how you would do
what you're gonna leave behind
You're too old to fix
and you're too old to die
Bound in the last day
and you learn to regret
It's all that you're born with
and it's all that you get
Well, the doctor said
it just about worked himself to death
His lungs was full of daggers,
he was always out of breath
If you wanna stay alive,
they said you'd better stay in bed
He fought the cancer with the whiskey
till that killed him instead
So my daddy left school
to go looking for work
He moved back to the peninsula
to mind the dark earth
Took up with the waitress
she was colored like the dirt
The back of his hand,
I thought I took off his skirt
I know how you wonder
what you're gonna leave behind
You're too broke to fix
and you're too old to die
Well, dear last name,
you learned to regret
It's all that you're born with
and it's all that you get
One night mama mixed wine
and cheap sleeping pills
Daddy found her in the morning
lying perfectly still
Little Eve saved up winter funeral bills
The burial plot way up in the hill
Everyone says I'm a fortunate son
That I don't have to do
like my daddy done
See they found him with his lips
around the barrel of a gun
A pocket full of arrowheads
you kept for good luck
You know how I wonder
what I'm gonna leave behind
Some two broke two bits
and I'm too bored to die
Well nearer, last name,
you learn to regret
It's all you're born with,
it's all you're born with,
it's all you're born with
And all you get is all you're born with,
it's all you're born with,
it's all you're born with
And I, I'll let you do it
You