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 me look good at the quarterback
Texas had a man in the the night we beat the panthers Said they had a spot for of us that next fall We ridin' high 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 Road 'Born to be wild' on the radio, God, I still hate that Both of us died there in crash but I lived to wish I had that night back After that football mean that much But until then, I thought who I was
had a hardware store where hard work was his livin' Peddelin' the hammers built this town I his heart that summer, I told him what I [incomprehensible] How to sell the by the pound
Spent my paycheck on an RC and a Greyhound A front seat to the world I'd seen Got a job, got a girl, had some and world in my pocket Thought I'd my place in the great machine
Up until the night I got the call, mama daddy didn't feel nothin' at all She broke down at the hall Said, baby, we you here with us I my boss she gives me the best I told my she wish we never met, but I don't regret what I gave up 'Cause until then I thought who I was
I drove straight through some and turns Went some 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 the one I scratched up But until I thought that's who I was But that who I was