This Help We Gave

from Fixer Upper by Chris Gockley

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Kenny was born by a trailer. To a rotating cast of kids and caretakers.
A place where parents lost a son,
once justice was done.
The court said: "That's enough."

They'd pack him up: let him out on loan to a similar town, different mobile home.
And if he was making friends at school,
in his kindergarten room,
his teachers said: "That's enough."

He couldn't get much farther,
with all this help we gave:
debating his public mouth and digging his public grave.

Kenny's aunt didn't know basic math, while her family's name made her teachers laugh.
She dropped out in-between
adulthood and sixteen.
Her parents said: "That's enough."

She couldn't know how to talk to him, and while regressing to corporal punishment
he died in a ditch.
The judge said "jail this witch"
and we all said: "That's enough."

And she couldn't get much farther,
with all this help we gave:
debating a public mouth and digging a public grave.

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from Fixer Upper, released April 1, 2019
Performed and written by Chris Gockley
Engineered and mixed by Adam Clairmont
Recorded at Overit Studios

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Chris Gockley Albany, New York

Chris Gockley is an acoustic singer-songwriter from upstate New York. His debut record is a sparse arrangement of guitar and vocals.

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