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Adelia Is Dead when adelia was a young girl of 14 she gave in to temptation and a 6 baby boy was all she had to show for the sensation her daddy took them in his home but he laid down the law and then late one moonless night, adelia was gone and they said yeah adelia is dead (and don't come back) when adelia was 25 she met a man who showed her some affection he was mixed up in the drug trade and he carried a 45 for their protection they shot him at the front door of their run-down two room shack and they burned the place down to the ground as adelia slipped out the back and they said yeah adelia is dead (she had it comin') after 20 years out on the streets, adelia started thinking 'bout redemption she said lord soon i'm comin' home do you have a place for one with my afflictions she saw that young boy in the road and that truck was bearin down she threw her body in the way and it knocked her to the ground they pulled the cryin baby boy from her broken arms they said someone call a doctor now, but adelia was gone and the good lord smiled Written by Paul
Bromwell |