Dear girl in the garage I owe you the full story Years ago I buried my son I found him hanging where he'd hung Himself out like an old pair of jeans It's the worst thing that I've ever seen And the first thing I see when I dream So I don't do much sleeping now I just keep wondering how I lost the only thing I can't replace Silently screaming in space And it destroyed our marriage Threw it from the top story Maureen couldn't leave the house She just stood there looking out Through curtains like he'd be home soon And the worst thing was that I knew She'd see him in all that I do She'd see him in the way I walked And hear him in the words I'd talk And catch him in the shadows of my face We went silently drifting through space Then there was Queenie She said I shouldn't take the blame She was soft and warm and all the things I lack She helped me carry the heaviest burden That a father can have upon his back And I never thanked her for that But I searched for courage Like my father did before me In the bottom of a whiskey glass Spiralling and spinning fast And bleeding out with every drink they'd pour me It was the worst way to deal with my pain But the first thing that I turned to that didn't turn away Then one night when I was drunk and hurt I vandalised my place of work and lay down broken and disgraced Wishing I could vanish in to space Then there was Queenie she stood and took the blame She was kind and brave and all the things I lack She took the bullet for me, she took the burden She lost her job and never came back Oh and I never thanked her for that Dear girl in the garage Now you know the full story months ago I left my home To walk to Queenie all alone Not for love for I've only ever loved my wife But she helped me long ago and that is why I knew I had to go I had to try And I never would have walked if we never had have talked And the Sun wouldn't have shone through the cracks And I'd just like to thank you for that