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[00:12.820]Lester cousins left his brothers on a work truck filled with others
[00:16.580]Cuz his father'd left his mother years ago
[00:20.130]And lester's mother took in lovers to feed and clothe his younger brothers
[00:23.950]So at thirteen years our lester chose to go
[00:27.490]Men introduced him to hard labour
[00:29.590]Moving earth and stacking hay
[00:31.180]Were all the options that were open to the boy
[00:35.150]And the same men showed our lester lady luck's appeal and blessed her
[00:38.880]With a trusting young disciple to enjoy
[00:42.580]With the gamblin' came the drinkin' and the c*****e and the sinkin'
[00:46.340]That accompanies a man who's falling down
[00:49.060]And pretty soon the fightin' and the whoring every night
[00:53.560]And pills and losing left his spirit on the ground
[00:59.320]Well there comes a time when even hardened men need to believe in
[01:02.960]Something more and look within and be afraid
[01:06.640]When a particularly rough night took his friend in one more knife fight
[01:10.620]For the first time in his hard life lester prayed
[01:14.950]Lester now
[01:16.290]Lester now
[01:17.650]Keep it together
[01:20.040]We all want to see you succeed
[01:25.440]Lester now
[01:26.850]Lester now
[01:28.110]Hold it together
[01:30.130]Cuz your goodness is what the world needs
[01:36.020]Lester now
[01:37.520]Lester now
[01:38.690]Keep it together and don't lose that spirit of yours
[01:45.950]And for the sake of us all
[01:48.420]Lester
[01:48.980]Try not to fall with the weight of the world at your door
[02:14.200]And for the sake of us all
[02:16.830]Lester
[02:17.390]Try not to fall with the fate of the world on the floor
[02:21.720]And for the sake of us all
[02:24.370]Lester
[02:25.080]Try not to fall with the hate of the world as your w***e
[02:30.920]Well god led lester to a lady who was finally worth the wait
[02:36.700]He bought a ring and changed his ways and settled down
[02:40.170]And he farmed his forty acres
[02:54.620]Raised a daughter
[03:08.360]Loved his maker
[03:21.190]Loved his wife and earned respect all through the town
[03:24.370]Hard at work and clean and sober fifteen years come this October
[03:28.380]All the vices of his past had disappeared
[03:31.820]Very little did he know then that the young
[03:36.860]Out of control men
[03:39.350]That his mother'd learned to dread would reappear
[03:43.560]Well his life and home were shattered and his wife and daughter battered
[03:47.920]When the kind he knew so well came back around
[03:51.500]An incontainable aggression induced lester to regress and
[03:55.860]Coldly murder those who'd raped the love he'd found
[04:02.240]It didn't take them long to find him or convict him or confine him
[04:14.190]To a cell block full of wounded prisoner doom
[04:23.120]Because despite his mother's will
[04:33.040]Her lester cousins was a killer now
[04:39.760]Who'd never live to leave the jailer's tomb