My Confession (part 1)

God please listen as I talk to you
God please listen as I pray
God please listen as I confess to you
And tell you about my day

I wake up this morning, thinking
Of all the problems my family's had
How everyone has had their time
Their time for being "bad"
Lets start with my cousin

She drank all her problems away
Wouldn't listen to what her family had to say
They sent her to boarding school far away from here
So she would stop with the drinks wine and beer
One day they brought her back to us
"Cured" from then on she was no fuss...

Now my oldest brother had a love that was so deep
Hours he drove to visit her every week
One dreary day he was coming back from afar
The road was slippery because it was raining so hard
He was going so fast and across the road he did slide
At eleven o'clock that morning John Roth died

My other brother is a "troubled one"
He lit a joint and thought he was having fun
As he kept lighting
He and dad kept fighting
Jake got kicked out of the house tried to control his rage
Now hes workin at Costco makin minimum wage

My cousin Alex met this guy
They started going out promised never to hurt cheat or lie
As time went by he became obsessed
Controlling and abusing her he wouldn't give it a rest
Now because of his anger and strife
That teenage girl is scarred for life.

This is my family the ones i cherish and love
The gifts god sent me from above
The ones who are with me every step of the way
The angels that give me a reason to wake up every day
You may think that we're all pretty messed up
But we'll stay together and keep growing up.