Dirty Living - Brendan James

I said to my brother

Life is not free

He said call me weak

But for once I’m proud of me

What you proud of, who you stand for

Not the Lord above

Dirty living got you giving never enough

My sister named Maria

She caught a bright, early sun

With sin, and with love

Like a tattoo on her arm

She couldn’t find no separation

Between loving life and love

Dirty living got her giving never enough

Blame it on the doctor

He never healed your pleas

Blame it on your mother

She never saw your needs

Looking up to heaven, I tell you

Sinner, you’ve got to believe

Live like a fool

You’ll get what’s coming to you

Like an angel, came his mother

She said one more second chance

She pleaded with Jesus said

Make my boy a man

Though he loved her, he abused her

Stole her wallet, jewels and used her

Dirty living got him digging for a resolution

She walked with less pride

Than one tiger, no stripes

She cried like a baby

On the first of newborn nights

She never let nobody tell a girl

More loving brings more pain

Dirty living got her breaking

Hearts and souls the same

Blame it on the doctor

He never healed your pleas, yeah

Blame it on your mother

She never saw your needs

Looking up to heaven, I tell you

Sinner, you’ve got to believe

Ya live like a fool

You’ll get what’s coming to you

In in the back streets of their broken town

On a corner with no name

These two, unworthy, two unfaithful wanderers

Meet face to face

They fall in love, they run away

They find they’re both one in the same

But it backfires, with their lying and

Unwillingness to change

Blame it on the doctor

He never healed your pleas, yeah

Blame it on your mother

She never saw your needs

You looking up to heaven, I tell you

Sinner, you’ve got to believe

Live like a fool

You’ll get what’s coming to you