Fateful day

Fateful day

Fateful day

Fateful day

If it hadn't been for whiskey

I'd be free as any bird

To fly away so far away

If they say that I went crazy

It was triggered by the things

I overheard that fateful day

The last thing I remember

Someone used my mother's name

I could not turn or walk away

They say there was a murder

And the judge and jury said

I was to blame that fateful day

Fateful day

Fateful day

Fateful day

Fateful day

Now I'm sitting in a place

Where violence is its own reward

I hug my bones and try to pay

I got this old prison Bible

That says vengeance is the Lord's

And I must pay for that fateful day

When I think about my mother now

I know that I have sinned

I hang my head and start to cry

There's no way I can change

The situation that I'm in

Or the fateful day that I must die

Fateful day