Me and Virgil Songtext

von Genesis

Ma would never say what happened,
And we knew better than push too hard,
We knew we had all the chores to tend to
Like fixing fences, and helping her.
Washing dishes and making coffee,
Me and Virgil'd chop some wood,
But we'd stop our swinging, just to listen
To her crying, it didn't sound too good.
I can remember too well.

But we never thought to pay much heed,
We learned to live life the best we could,
But then one day pa upped and left us
High and dry, without a word.
Seemed a pity, my ma was pretty,
But I soon learned life ain't that way,
And I can remember hearing her weeping
While we were sleeping next to her.
I can remember.

I'll never forgive and I'll never forget,
‘Cos pa you broke her heart,
Oh pa you broke her heart,
You broke her heart,
Oh pa you broke her heart.

Well the years rolled by, and 'fore we knew it
Our sister got married and moved out west,
I stayed with ma, ‘cos I couldn't desert her,
I knew it would hurt her to be alone.
So we pulled tighter, we said we'd try
To make things easy, and raise a smile,
But as the night came we'd hear her crying,
Praying for pa to come back again.
I can remember.

I'll never forgive him and I'll never forget,
‘Cos pa you broke her heart,
Oh pa you broke her heart.

And then the winter came, I'd never known it colder,
Oh it seemed the worst for years.
And the night she died I swear I saw her smiling,
Saying I was a big boy now, no tears.
So I packed up all we had, and Virgil got the horses,
And we paid our last respects and gave the whip a crack.
Oh, seemed a big bad world we were riding into.
Me and Virgil both agreed, we best head off,
And don't look back.

Nothing but desert all around,
Oh it made me wonder.
Lord, it's hard to carry on,
When you're sick with hunger.

Weeks and months of sleeping rough,
Keeping clear of danger,
Seems we were miles from anywhere,
And too far gone to change it.
We'd best keep going, don't look back.

Well me and Virgil, we beat the desert,
Riding fast and riding hard,
We hit the city, the past behind us,
So we raised some hell, we had some fun.
But real soon I met a lady
Oh so pretty, and oh so fine,
'Fore too long I found myself married
With a home of my own and a blue eyed son.

And 'til this day I can hear ma saying to me,
"You're a big boy now".