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 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 that fall We were ridin' on pride, big time futures Small town said we had it all
Up until the night me and Billy Joe drank way too much for Blue Buck 'Born to be wild' on the radio, God, I still hate that Both of us there in that crash but I lived to wish I had that night back After that football didn't that much But then, I thought that's who I was
Daddy had a hardware store where hard work was his Peddelin' the hammers that built town I his heart that summer, I told him what I [incomprehensible] How to sell the nails by the
Spent my paycheck on an RC and a Greyhound A front seat to the world I'd never Got a job, got a girl, had cash and world in my pocket Thought I'd found my place in the machine
Up the night I got the call, mama said daddy didn't feel nothin' at all She broke down at the fellowship Said, baby, we need you here us I told my boss she gives me the I told my girl she wish we never met, but I regret what I gave up 'Cause until then I that's who I was
I drove through some twist and turns Went through crash and burns Stumbled through some lessons learned with the weight on my Went around the world to find the girl God had in Gave me a better than the one I scratched up But then I thought that's who I was But that who I was