Lyrics Dennis & Billy - Craig Finn

Dennis and Billy
From up by Champlain
Been friends since forever
First day of first grade

Played football together
Won some pretty big games
Dennis and Billy
From up by Champlain

After graduation Dennis enlisted
Billy was taken by a bit of surprise
Dennis said that he didn't have any other answers
Didn't want to be stuck in this town his whole life

The night before he left
They went way out on some wine
Billy asked Dennis if he was scared he's gonna die
Dennis said everybody dies at some time
Neither of them said a thing for a while

Billy stayed home and took on a trade
Went for the handle. Got bit by the blade
There were hospital bills
There was pain. There were pills
The pain went away but the pills they just stayed

The way it washed over
It was warm like the sunshine
Billy felt filled up with the bright shining lights
Just for a moment he wasn't anxious or nervous
Dennis was somewhere still stuck in the service

Dennis wasn't much for sending off letters
Billy wasn't either so they weren't much in touch
Dennis came back to see his sick mother
Billy's on the corner like he's waiting on a bus

Later on that evening in a tavern barely talking
Billy said Dennis man you're lucky you left
Dennis started saying something then he reconsidered
He looked down at his beer and slowly shook his head

He said I've been out there fighting
You've been hanging round here dying
It might be ironic but it's not a good joke
These Vikes and Oxycontins
This whole town's stuck on something
That's pretty much why I hate coming home

The night before he left
He watched Billy getting high
Dennis asked Billy if he was scared he's gonna die

Billy said everyone dies at some time
Neither of them said a thing for a while

Neither of them said a thing for a while