It's Easier If You Don't Look Back

It’s easier

If you don’t look back

I don’t know what you’re hearing

Because my hearing went

A few years ago

But I can drive just fine

Sound never made a difference

When it comes to

Driving

Not in my experience anyway

Only distracts you

Although I do miss

Listening to Charlie Daniels

On the radio

My sight’s better than ever

Much better

Than when I could hear

If I’m anything like my Daddy

Tasting is going to go next

But then again

He was a smoker

Til he died

So maybe I’ll be fine

I told him to keep

Two cars between us

But that was just

Me trying to keep caution

I knew he wasn’t going to be able

To keep his distance

Not after all this time

Being away from you

They lay hands on you

In that place?

Pray over you?

That kind of thing?

I hate that shit

Last time I checked

Jesus don’t live

In your fingertips

Not the way

People forget

To wash their hands

These days

They give you that

Bowl cut on your head?

It’ll grow out

Don’t worry

You look like you got that hair

That grows nice and fast

Wish I had hair like that

He told me you hurt yourself

When you came out of the window

That you landed funny

Is that true?

If you hurt yourself

I have to take you to a hospital

Not right now

But sooner or later
I’d have to

Can’t have you getting sick

Or staying injured

You’d be a liability then

Right now you’re not a liability
You’re a client

But the line’s thin

And I can’t afford

To have it get

Any thinner

I already told him

That if things get dicey

I need to turn you over to him
And the two of you

Would be on your own

From that point on

No refunds either

Not after we pass the county line

That was the deal

And you can’t look back

There’s a thing that happens

When you look back at anything

You start to wonder

If you should have left

There’s no logic around it

It’s just how it goes

I’ve taken people

Away from all sorts

Of bad shit

But no matter what it was

As soon as the person looked back

They wanted to go back

Some begged me

To turn around

And then I had to

Because I’m not in the business

Of kidnapping

But if we pass the county line

Kidnapped or not

There’s no going back

So you’d be doing yourself a favor

By keeping your eyes on me

And the road ahead

No matter how scary

What’s in front of you looks

If you keep looking

That’s where you’ll want to go

Because you won’t know

You even have

A choice