Steve Dawson - A Mile South of Town Lyrics

I had too many tonight again
It's been a bad week
It's been a bad year
I rode too fast in the dark, again
Didn't even see
The white-tailed deer
Now we're lying here
In the middle of the road
In the middle of a pitch-black night
Breathing our last breaths together
Not a sound, nobody else around
For miles and miles

I was born the happy little son
Of an angry old man
In a dirt brown single wide
A mile south of town
Three tours out of high school
Serving Uncle Sam
When I need to forget
I go out and drive around
That's how I ended up
In the middle of the road
In the middle of a pitch-black night
Face to face with this sad mama deer
Staring at me staring back at her
Panic in her eyes
She doesn't wanna die

I never knew it could ever be so quiet
I hear the wind in the cottonwoods
Down by the river
Round sunrise some farmer's
Gonna come driving by
He'll see my bike in the ditch
He'll put it all together
He'll see us lying here
In the middle of the road
Still as a photograph
The skid marks and the blood
And the broken mama deer
The whiskey still alive
From my last breath