Matthew Ryan - The Complete Family lyrics

We walked down the block through the dead trees. You were smiling. And I was smiling too. From the time we were little. You were always taller, thinner. You were a kind of lanky Matt Dillon. I was strong but awkward. And born with an armour of imagination. I loved music. And so did you. But you loved those loud guitars. And venom. That venom with a lost angry sadness. While I lived in the sadness. I remember Roy Orbison on an AM radio. All falsetto and loneliness. That day was so sharp it cut through gla** and warmed the carpet underneath me. You were out with your friends. Your best friend's name was Ray. He's in jail now. A few weeks ago you were sentenced as well. I sat in my room still surrounded by a sad song thinking. Thirty years. It's been thirty years. And you're going to be in there for thirty years. Now I remember that day you had just gotten out of rehab. And I was happy to see you. Happy to hope. That from that point forward. All would be better. And I was proud of you. And we were going home. The complete family. A complete family. Just you and me. Mom and Dad. A complete family.