Did the Man Have a Prayer?

He kissed his babe and said goodbye
Little did he knew it'd be the day he'd die
Second chances he never got
All the times he said he'd bought
Her a diamond ring
Her scarlet blue eyes
Never seem to dry
As tears well up within the night
Her greatest fear came alive
During the summer of eighty-five
Around half past ten
A man took a visit to a bar yet again
Driving away he didn't see there
Was something more in his traffic lights
Within a flash he took another's life
As the man was struck down that night
The woman didn't know what to do
When the policeman told her the news
He'd said he'd be right back but he never came
Back to her yet again
He'd went down to the store in a little brown car
Didn't know the other man had been at the bar
As his blue chevy slammed into his
The metal crushed and creaked
His dire ending was short and bleak
If it had been a couple weeks later
He'd of left behind an unborn son and a widow
If it had been a couple months later
He'd of lived to see his first son's birth
If it had been a couple of years later
He'd of lived to see a picture of four on a fire's hearth
If it had been near fifty-nine years later
Him and his wife would've died together
But instead he sees nothing but blindness in his eyes
As the herse learches foward
A young man of twenty-three
Died that summer night