Me and Billy Joe joined each other at the hip I loved him like the brother I had He was my go-to-guy on and ten me look good at the quarterback
Texas had a man in the stands the night we beat the they had a spot for both of us that next fall We were ridin' high on pride, big futures Small paper said we had it all
Up until the night me and Joe drank way too much for Blue Buck Road 'Born to be wild' on the radio, God, I still hate that Both of us died there in that but I lived to wish I had that night back After that football didn't mean that But until then, I thought who I was
Daddy had a hardware store where work was his livin' Peddelin' the hammers that this town I broke his heart that summer, I him what I [incomprehensible] How to sell the by the pound
my last paycheck on an RC and a Greyhound A front to the world I'd never seen Got a job, got a girl, had some cash and world in my Thought I'd found my place in the great
Up until the I got the call, mama said daddy didn't feel nothin' at all She broke at the fellowship hall Said, baby, we need you with us I my boss she gives me the best I told my girl she wish we never met, but I don't what I gave up 'Cause then I thought that's who I was
I drove straight through some and turns Went through crash and burns Stumbled through some lessons with the weight on my shoulders around the world to find the girl God had in mind Gave me a better love than the one I up But until then I that's who I was But that who I was