100, 000 I need a reason to get up I wash my The junkies, the Hookers, the dealers the kickin' off my trippin' off the fact I haven't called my gramma in a long, long time standin in the shower for half an hour to wake up and I'm lookin for the power reachin' for the towel with soap in my off my shoulders, my chest, and my thighs The next thing I know the telephone I hear my own on the answering machine please leave a I'm glad ya called I for a voice but there's nothin' at all Man oh Man I gotta the blues and pay respect respect is due all to GOD the one I return to the one I can to when I'm feelin to the bone (chorus) Early in the morn I wash my face a hundred thousand miles is a lonely At six in the morning she bed stared out the window and she said I wasn't her type... I think she's runnin outa though... and I told her so. She picked up her things and through the door and then said that she see me no more as she was leaving I asked her if she'd call she didn't look back said at all I didn't my clothes because they smell like you and when I a shower it reminded me of you I Gramma Brown for advice it happened to me once it happened to me my son you sound really bugged I that you were here so I could to you give a hug then she gave me a long, talk she "you have the patience of ice on a sidewalk" when things get rough sweat it sometimes in life you have to let it and sing out a song so even a bad dream couldn't bring harm to the mind of a young childs formed from the candle shadows her voice is like a whispering kiss on the (chorus) Early in the morn I wash my face The bedisstill warmbut there's an empty in the mornin beforeIwashmy face a hundred thousand miles is a place In the last thirty before I fall I have said my prayers and I have brushed my teeth This is the time when I am to think about all of the things I been to forget about The Bills, the phone, up my room the cars, the traffic, the speakers and the alone I remember the with me and you and I realize my is shakin' up the room Gramma she would tell us the glory days and gramma she tell us about when we were slaves in the livin' room pianos outa on top of it the pictures of every and groom child/ grand child child every single tear shed every smile 'cause everybodies got alota shit to deal and life doesn't stop it just makes ya it so shake the offa your feet take a step liberate with the beat so for you I this song I you to hear it before you are gone. the in me the Seminole in me are some a things my grandmother gave to me some believe there are and some there ain't if ever there was one my gramma she is a saint (chorus) Early in the before I wash my face The bed isstill warmbut there'san empty Earlyin before I wash my face a thousand miles is a lonely place