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Wish It Was True by The White Buffalo

Mother, try to do right by you
To do what you asked me to
I did wrong and I knew

Mother I tried to behave for you
Now I’m a digging a (1)__________ for you
It was all I (2)__________ do

Find a way back home, (3)________ everything new
But I wish it was true

Father, well I’ll give my soul to you
I came in blind folded for you
It was all that I knew

Open your (4)________ and I’ll fly out of hell up to you
I wish it was true

Boy (5)________ on out from the cold
Your lost outside there don’t you know
It’s not what you say it was you do
Just keep (6)______________ your wishes are true
Well your dreams there reality
There’s no pain there’s no misery
Just polish the blood and the bruise
For there’s (7)________ no way you can lose
But I wish it was true

Country, I was a soldier for you
I did (8)________ you asked me to
It was (9)__________ and you knew

Country, now I’m just a stranger to you
A number, a name; it’s true
Throw me away when you’re through

Home of the brave and free, the red white and blue
But I wish it was true
Answers:
(1) grave(2) could(3) make(4) arms(5) come(6) wishing(7) just(8) what(9) wrong