Me and Billy Joe joined each other at the hip I loved him like the I never had He was my on third and ten Made me look at the quarterback
Texas had a man in the the night we beat the panthers Said they had a spot for both of us next fall We were ridin' on pride, big time futures town paper said we had it all
Up until the night me and Billy Joe way too much for Blue Buck Road 'Born to be wild' on the radio, God, I still hate song Both of us died there in that crash but I lived to wish I had night back that football didn't mean that much But until then, I that's who I was
Daddy had a hardware store hard work was his livin' Peddelin' the hammers built this town I broke his that summer, I told him what I [incomprehensible] How to the nails by the pound
Spent my paycheck on an RC and a Greyhound A seat to the world I'd never seen Got a job, got a girl, had some and world in my pocket Thought I'd found my in the great machine
Up until the night I got the call, mama said daddy didn't feel at all She down at the fellowship hall Said, baby, we you here with us I told my she gives me the best I told my girl she wish we never met, but I regret what I gave up until then I thought that's who I was
I drove straight through some and turns through some crash and burns Stumbled some lessons learned with the weight on my shoulders Went around the world to find the girl God had in Gave me a better love than the one I up But until I thought that's who I was But ain't who I was