Patrick

Neponset neighborhood landscape

You loomed larger than most

Owned scholastic and academic achievements

All which you did boast

The world was in the palm of your hand

When you went backdoor on school and friends

Drink, drugs, fighting fast lane life

Grew big chips on those imposing shoulders

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Take it back Patrick

Where is the kid that I once knew

Such a young sick kid

Where is this lifestyle taking you

Look at what booze did

The insanity breaking you

Take it back Patrick

Put in choice dry out spots

But you always broke out

Claimed they didn't know your reality

Loaded with self doubt

Jump back on the pain train

The ride will be different this time

Denial express closes to a stop

Your death, the end of the ride

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You can claim ignorance

Once the reaper comes

Because you got told about the cure by your drink doctor

Go back on the bright, straighten up your life

To you we do implore a second shot at this tonight

Saw you lying there, beaten at town field

With an unshakeable angry frown and requisite bottle

That won't happen to you, you were once the ace

A field's corner kid that the booze just knocked right out of place

Take it back Patrick

Lazarus runs out of time

Such a young sick kid

Without reason or a rhyme

Look at what booze did

A family left beyond the wake

Take it back Patrick