This is a song about, uh Uh, drinking and driving You know, this guy is cruising on home And he sees this truck fly past him And uh, he can tell in his headlights that the guy is You know, he's all over the road and Right in front of his eyes he flies off the road And goes into the ditch, and so the guy The singer of this song goes and finds him there With a, you know there's like a, bottle of whiskey There laying in the grass next to him And he's all mangled and, messed up and You know, the guy's dying words, his dying To this stranger who just found him in the ditch are You know, right before he dies he says, you know, just "Please don't tell my mom I was drinking" And then he dies It's a really powerful thing you know The first time I heard it, it just really, really moved me Uh, it's a powerful message I think About, you know how must of us feel about our mom And how, you know even, even though this guy was about to die All he really cared about was, was that his mom Uh, you know, her life wouldn't be ruined by The fact that he was drinking and driving