Well, our new home is this musty old motel room

Until all the funds are gone and they just make us leave

We don’t turn on the TV, we hardly open up the shade

Ain’t nothin’ out that window worth seeing anyway

 

Well, the winter nights are long, we both toss and we turn

We don’t talk much about September now, but those memories they still burn

Well, the storm has long gone, but those dark clouds still hangin’ down low

We lost you in the flood, and I’m still caught in the undertow

 

You were the best of us

What I wouldn’t give just to have you next to us

You always held it all together every time I was losin’ control

So, why am I the one left behind in the undertow

 

Baby I’m tryin’ like Hell to be a good father

But I’m in the middle of a deep dark ocean, and I’m just out here all alone and I’m treading water

I swear that look in his eyes, is like a window to your soul

That boy needs his mama, not some old broken man caught up in the undertow

 

You were the best of us

What I wouldn’t give to have you next to us

You always held it all together when the storm was ragin’ in my soul

So why am I the one left behind in the undertow

Why am I the one left behind in the undertow