When Walter Went Crazy - Drive-By Truckers

When Walter went crazy, she was sitting on the couch

Painting her toenails and drinking a Tab

He walked out of the bedroom with a cigarette in his mouth

And he poured gasoline in a circle all around the house

When Walter went crazy, he had rattlesnake in his eyes

Blended whisky in his veins and murder in his heart

She watched him walk out the door and knew that he was gone

Matlock on the TV and her mama on the phone

When Walter went crazy, they say that he just snapped

It had gone on for so long, and she wasn’t coming back

She hadn’t been off the couch in at least a dozen years

Deafened by the silence and the grinding of the gears

Their friend could see it coming like yellow piss on snow

Like a house fire in the distance, like a car crash in slow-mo

Their friends could see it coming, but what could someone do

When it’s speeding down the runway and the brake line’s cut in two

When Walter went crazy and the house went up in flames

You could see his hands shaking from the bourbon and the shame

He never planned the ending, he just rolled the credit names

When the lights came up we all went home, but never quite the same