Educated Guesses

Have you seen your mother, baby
Standing in the shadows with a
Look of indecision on her face?
Have you ever wondered how she
Looked when she was younger and
Decisions weren’t things she had to make?
Did you see your father, baby
There beside your mother
Laughing with his arm around her waist?
Have you ever wondered how they
Were when they were younger, when
Th only thing they had to lose was faith?
And is it any wonder now, was thre ever any doubt
They’d be in it 'til the lights went out and the wheels fell off?
Did you learn your lesson, ma’am
With educated guesses that you
Only wind up taking on the chin?
Did you hope to gather all
The things that you would rather have
Instead of only piss in the wind?
Did you try your luck until you
Found that it don’t give a fuck?
It deals you in or out just as it pleases
Now you’ve stuck around while all the
Smart ones ran to bigger towns
You didn’t heed the siren call to leave