Me and Joe Taylor joined each other at the hip I loved him the brother I never had He was my go-to-guy on and ten Made me look at the quarterback
Texas had a man in the stands the we beat the panthers Said they had a spot for both of us that next We were ridin' on pride, big time futures Small paper 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 song Both of us died there in that crash but I lived to wish I had that night 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 that built this I broke his heart summer, I told him what I [incomprehensible] How to the nails by the pound
my last paycheck on an RC and a Greyhound A front seat to the world I'd never Got a job, got a girl, had some and world in my pocket I'd found my place in the great machine
Up until the night I got the call, mama said didn't feel nothin' at all She broke down at the fellowship Said, baby, we need you with us I told my she gives me the best I told my girl she wish we never met, but I don't regret what I up 'Cause until then I thought who I was
I drove through some twist and turns Went some crash and burns Stumbled through some lessons learned with the on my shoulders Went around the world to the girl God had in mind Gave me a better than the one I scratched up But then I thought that's who I was But ain't who I was