Forbidden Fruit

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Nathan Strem

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Relation in blood, relation in spine
Now one is gone, my water will never be wine

The youngest of fourteen, just a boy growing up on a farm
From a boy to a man, a man to a dad, a dad to ashes
He's living off of borrowed time, in dreams and photographs,
But when I wake up or look away, he's gone all over again
In our family videos he's happy, hard to hold my tears
If he could see through the screen, he'd be proud of me, rewind to those Cedar Road years
He would always regret his absence at the harvest of the corn that he grew
Does he now regret missing most of my life and widowing my mother too?

Forbidden fruit in the form of a bottle, a bottle or a can
Forbidden fruit poured into a glass, over and over again

He made it off the farm, survived the navy, and the city
Who would have thought that what would end his life would be an amber colored pity
It's legal for adults and overlooked for kids, so surely you can't get addicted
I'm told I would have a little more fun if I had one drink and then two more
At too young an age he was offered a deal: perfect life, poisoned body
He took that deal, he left us with money, he left us for good
He would say "you'll miss me someday," like we didn't love him then
Well we missed you then and we miss you now, was it worth it in the end?

Forbidden fruit in the form of a bottle, a bottle or a can
Forbidden fruit poured into a glass, over and over again

He tried to hide it and I guess he did, from everyone but us
Other people knew a different man, he'd never lost their trust
He would hide it in his computer code, trees, and toothy grin
Well it's hard to hide when you cough up blood and commit one too many sin
This story isn't new, we heard it a year before
You can win the battle on a Friday night, but on Monday lose the war
People still drink in this dairyland, every night of the week
But I'll remember I was left with just a mother before I could legally drink

Forbidden fruit in the form of a bottle, a bottle or a can
Forbidden fruit poured into a glass, over and over again

I guard my liver, and I guard my heart
I stay sober and lonely, time to unearth my buried parts

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