[00:12.82]Lester cousins left his brothers on a work truck filled with others
[00:16.58]Cuz his father'd left his mother years ago
[00:20.13]And lester's mother took in lovers to feed and clothe his younger brothers
[00:23.95]So at thirteen years our lester chose to go
[00:27.49]Men introduced him to hard labour
[00:29.59]Moving earth and stacking hay
[00:31.18]Were all the options that were open to the boy
[00:35.15]And the same men showed our lester lady luck's appeal and blessed her
[00:38.88]With a trusting young disciple to enjoy
[00:42.58]With the gamblin' came the drinkin' and the c*****e and the sinkin'
[00:46.34]That accompanies a man who's falling down
[00:49.06]And pretty soon the fightin' and the whoring every night
[00:53.56]And pills and losing left his spirit on the ground
[00:59.32]Well there comes a time when even hardened men need to believe in
[01:02.96]Something more and look within and be afraid
[01:06.64]When a particularly rough night took his friend in one more knife fight
[01:10.62]For the first time in his hard life lester prayed
[01:14.95]Lester now
[01:16.29]Lester now
[01:17.65]Keep it together
[01:20.04]We all want to see you succeed
[01:25.44]Lester now
[01:26.85]Lester now
[01:28.11]Hold it together
[01:30.13]Cuz your goodness is what the world needs
[01:36.02]Lester now
[01:37.52]Lester now
[01:38.69]Keep it together and don't lose that spirit of yours
[01:45.95]And for the sake of us all
[01:48.42]Lester
[01:48.98]Try not to fall with the weight of the world at your door
[02:14.20]And for the sake of us all
[02:16.83]Lester
[02:17.39]Try not to fall with the fate of the world on the floor
[02:21.72]And for the sake of us all
[02:24.37]Lester
[02:25.08]Try not to fall with the hate of the world as your w***e
[02:30.92]Well god led lester to a lady who was finally worth the wait
[02:36.70]He bought a ring and changed his ways and settled down
[02:40.17]And he farmed his forty acres
[02:54.62]Raised a daughter
[03:08.36]Loved his maker
[03:21.19]Loved his wife and earned respect all through the town
[03:24.37]Hard at work and clean and sober fifteen years come this October
[03:28.38]All the vices of his past had disappeared
[03:31.82]Very little did he know then that the young
[03:36.86]Out of control men
[03:39.35]That his mother'd learned to dread would reappear
[03:43.56]Well his life and home were shattered and his wife and daughter battered
[03:47.92]When the kind he knew so well came back around
[03:51.50]An incontainable aggression induced lester to regress and
[03:55.86]Coldly murder those who'd raped the love he'd found
[04:02.24]It didn't take them long to find him or convict him or confine him
[04:14.19]To a cell block full of wounded prisoner doom
[04:23.12]Because despite his mother's will
[04:33.04]Her lester cousins was a killer now
[04:39.76]Who'd never live to leave the jailer's tomb