For JoeJoe ...

[Kat]

In Loving Memory of Joseph Michael Lirot​

Born into this world October 17, 1971
Passed away August 21, 2005 at Holy Cross Hospital, Chicago, Illinois

Your are truly missed, even though the last years of your life were such a struggle and painful not only to you but your family.

I do love and miss you Joe. I just wish you could've overcome that dark cloud over yours and the families head before you passed. I know you can't read this, but it's something I am compelled to do, and it's been eating away at me for days now.

I wish this song would have been released before you passed. Steve and I feel it could've been written for you and how you lived your life in the end.

I Can't Help Myself
Van Zant​

I been lost in the darkness for so long,
I can't see the life.
I been strung out, burned out, left out,
An' hung out to dry.
So I say to myself that I wanna get better:
Hidin' from the truth, I can't last forever.

• Jesus, help me;
  Obviously, I can't help myself:
  I've got nobody else.
  Send me an angel: someone to strangle,
  That old demon that's hauntin' me there on the shelf.
  I can't help myself.

An' my excuses are so old an' tired:
Hell, I forget 'em.
I keep fallin', an' crawlin', an' drownin'
Down here on the bottom.
Yeah, I've pushed back my brothers, said goodbye to my friends:
When you get in this deep, the hell never ends.

• 
  Jesus, help me;
  Obviously, I can't help myself:
  I've got nobody else.
  Send me an angel: someone to strangle,
  That old demon that's hauntin' me there on the shelf.
  I can't help myself.
  • Gimme a reason to live an' show me a sign.
    I'm on the edge goin' out of my mind.
    I'm down on my knees: I'm beggin' you please,
    Make me somebody else: I can't help myself.

Instrumental Break.
(No!)

• • I need something stronger:
    Pour it all over me.

• Send me an angel: someone to strangle,
  That old demon:
  'Cause you know that I never will.
  I can't help myself.
  Lord, I can't help myself.
  
  
  Written by Tom Hambridge, Jeffrey Steele, Donnie Van Zant and Johnny Van Zant.
  © Jeffrey Steele Music.
  From "Get Right With The Man", © Sony.
  Produced by Joe Scaife and Mark Wright.

 

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