Me and Billy Joe joined each other at the hip I him like the brother I never had He was my on third and ten me look good at the quarterback
Texas had a man in the stands the we beat the panthers Said had a spot for both of us that next fall We were ridin' on pride, big time futures Small town paper 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 hate that song Both of us died there in that crash but I lived to I had that night back After that football didn't that much But then, I thought that's who I was
Daddy had a store where hard work was his livin' Peddelin' the hammers built this town I broke his that summer, I told him what I [incomprehensible] How to sell the by the pound
Spent my last 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 in the great machine
Up until the night I got the call, mama said daddy 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 don't what I gave up 'Cause until then I that's who I was
I drove straight through twist and turns Went through some and burns Stumbled through some learned with the weight on my shoulders Went around the to find the girl God had in mind me a better love than the one I scratched up But until then I thought who I was But that who I was