Stories - Jon Oliva's Pain

I got stories for days, kid

Stories for days

Yeah

I got stories of life

Got stories of pain

Got stories of love, I got stories of drugs

I got stories of God, got stories of me

Got stories of people who I know and that I see

I got stories of times in my memory

Stories of my friends and all my enemies

Got stories of the nights, stories in the safe

Come on over, you’ll get the story of the day

Get the story of the day

It’s gettin' late I throw my coat on

My exit what I prolong

Haven’t been here in so long

But all of my friends are so gone

So they won’t notice

I make my Irish goodbye

Get outside, where it’s quiet

Then scenery fills my iris

Get on the road and pass the medium-sized houses dipped in white

Drippin' ice, snowfall is like a giant poltergeist

I call my lady, checkin' on her, hope she up I know I’m right

I make a right and park the car at the rightest side of the yard

And then, right when I park

I get a call from momma

Telling me my momma’s momma’s

Bedside with a doctor saying she ain’t got me much longer

I make my way as fast as I can

She got Alzheimer’s and so she doesn’t know who I am, and yet

Somehow she smiles, whole fam is there and cryin'

‘Cept my Dad but yeah he’s stressing cause my mom is scared of death

And she doesn’t want to let a parent go

The strong one is my apparent role

I smile and her eyes close, she goes

I got stories of life

Got stories of pain

Got stories of love, I got stories of drugs

I got stories of God, got stories of me

Got stories of people who I know and that I see

I got stories of times in my memory

Stories of my friends and all my enemies

Got stories of the nights, stories in the safe

Come on over, you’ll get the story of the day

Get the story of the day

Yeah

Fresh up out the freshman class, got to save the best for last

Red sox cap-wearing Cass is who you know me as

The frat house is where my homies at they rushed it early

I saw ‘em go through pledgin'… body abuse to earn it

Swallowing vodka like it’s water to impress the older brothers

Puke themselves like they some models in this club

This s***'* disgusting

Not really my style

But I did it too, the ridicule I got from fam was wild

Connor what the f***

Been hearing on the up and up

You partying with the wrong crowd

Your quote-unquote brother caught a rape charge

And molly is what he stays on

Tellin' me that’s that s*** you went to school to do?

Your momma slaves her life to pay your bills and you just cruising through?

Nah brotha this ain’t you

Telling my cousin to calm down

He says «Dawg you family, if you fail you bring us all down»

Chills… when somebody says what’s real

He says «It's never too late to breathe life in time that you killed… get right»

I got stories of life

Got stories of pain

Got stories of love, I got stories of drugs

I got stories of God, got stories of me

Got stories of people who I know and that I see

I got stories of times in my memory

Stories of my friends and all my enemies

Got stories of the nights, stories in the safe

Come on over, you’ll get the story of the day

Get the story of the day

I got stories of fear

I got stories of faith

Got stories I would never tell nobody in this place

I got stories of livin'

Got stories of dyin'

Got stories of actually doing, stories of tryin'

Got stories up, apartment’s on the seventh floor, I’m higher

Stories of what’s real, I got some stories where I’m lyin'

Got some stories so fire they could heat entire venues

Got so many stories I’ma probably never get to but we movin' on

Yeah

Off-key, don’t care mother******

Yeah

I got stories of me