The Party

Spoken:

Then we left for the party like we'd so often done
Thinkin' only of ourselves and not our little ones
The party started out wild and it grew wilder as the night wore on
With drinking, laughing, telling dirty jokes, nobody thinkin' of home

Then the strangest feeling came over me and it chilled me to the bones
And I told my wife that we'd better leave the party
Cause I felt that we were needed at home

As we rode along, I got to thinkin'
Of how the kids that mornin'
Had asked if we would take them to church the next day
And how I'd put 'em off like I'd so often done
By sayin' we'd probably get home too late

Then my thoughts were interrupted by the sound of sirens
As they cut through the still night air
Then we turned down our street
That's when we saw the fire
The rest was like a nightmare

We took their little bodies to church the next day
Though we'd left the party early
We still got home too late