D.N.R.

Winter's dark morning woke my dad

The diabetic didn't feel his feet step out of bed

The truck filled with TV dinners

Needing delivering round town

They would drive behind the paper boy throwin' them

headlines out

And no antidepressant of sort

Could change the weather report

When the wind chill factor was high he took the whole

bottle down

He's got his paperwork now

DNR DNR DNR DNR DNR DNR

Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, he raised his kids up right

But bein raised in the light of Christ adds insult to

injury that night

When the mail order brides and the phone sex and his

negligence became real

The wall covered in spit how's it to make your teenage

daughters feel

He called his flame that never died

She could hear something weren't right

Now we've got one more failed attempt at a suicide

Keep it right by your side

DNR DNR

By no heroic measure

Restart restart his heart

A lonely heart was the black hole that did him in

From the first attempt to his current critical

condition

Now were talking over who will take the dog if he's

gonna make it through again

And were takin' turns tell him the stories of the good

times worth rememberin'

And then my sister asked

Are we prayin' for him to pass

And no one dared speak out loud but we all knew

And pushed the paperwork through

DNR DNR

By no heroic measure

Restart restart his heart