Ovadya - Memories Buried

Ovadya performing original tune "Memories Buried" at One World Brewing West in Asheville NC on Aug 5th, 2023 as part of AVLFest.
Lyrics:
(Look) there's the bar on the corner where my dad drank for years -
He'd come stumbling home after vodka & beers
And the fights in the night that would follow our ears,
As we shivered & hid and swallowed our fear
Well, there are memories buried, but not gone,
Memories carried for a long, long, long, time,
But not so nearly so long... enough
There's a cigarette glowing in the dark on the porch,
And a burned out mind & a hole from a scorch
From a dropped cigarette that was his vigilant torch
Of a shell of a man & the hell that he forged
Well, there are memories buried, but not gone,
Memories carried for a long, long, long, time,
But not so nearly so long... enough
Hang our a sign on the back of my car;
"Handicapped" (memories of a bar)
And every blow I've carried so far
Is an invisible wound but a palpable scar
Well, there are memories buried, but not gone,
Memories carried for a long, long, long, time,
But not so nearly so long... enough
Gonna find a back that's very strong --
A back that's nearly strong... enough