Woke up sweating in the sun    Sprawled across my big brother's grave,    Shaking and drunk with sleep I crawled to my feet    And walked up into the shade    Of a young elm tree that must have been planted since the last we came    Vicki, my mom and me cleaned the dirt from the plaque that Says 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    The vision that had me twisting out under the 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 walked, through the colourless world of an alcohol dream    I talked for hours, trying to break through the silence that he held over me    Then he started away, turned his head    Keep it up so you can die like me       Ever since my brother OD'd I have 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    My mama got religion and my sisters gave up    Man, I just gave up too    I just died inside    Don't wanna die like George    Everybody says there's things to see,    Everybody's pointing their fingers at me       I woke up driving after another blackout from another bad drug    I can't shake this hell that I made for myself,    For every other life I touch    I see my sister's son walk the line I walked, he's only sixteen    If he don't learn from my mistakes he's gonna waste away,    He's gonna die like me