Way back in Alabama where the roads cut through the woods And when it rains you can smell the off the grass Even dew on the of my paw paw's 1985 Chevrolet Silverado I must have been six Life was so back in the sticks 16 year old mother fought for the she wanted for her son Lookin' for love in the world of and roll is where it begun It was Alabama, Ted Alice Cooper, Travis Aerosmith kept my stepdaddy on the And life, it was Cocaine and alcohol filled up the party to be frank It wasn't too before I tried it myself and then started to drink School became and doing my homework became rollin' joints Now I'm sixteen my mama was when she had a little boy Can't imagine it now as I look back 'cause I got kids of my own And I respect what she went to pay for food and clothes And her it ain't what she did, it's what she didn't do for me That me to this moment And made me who I am on recording And this is my
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20 years old in the streets and I'm with gangsters now Hip-hop is takin' over me, my language, my clothes, my Antioch, put me through the school of hard knocks And I carry that attitude with me to day, more or not And I'm and hot-headed running from police and skateboardin' Graffiti, loiterin', I got my peace from the chaos Was no "mother-may-I's," surrounded by And some day I's well I was against the grain, even when I was growin' Got into rock and roll, and then got into poetry Started everything I could through the medium of pen and pad instrumentals off a tape and then over-dubbin' what I had It was everything, because I had And man was alright, 'cause now I had somethin' Little did I know that would be the hardest thing to do God put before me So I took a look at what I've through And I it my glory, and this is...
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It's a 2 AM bus 'craw; me at the parkin' lot of Wal-Mart Leavin' Nashville, Tennessee for a tour My bags are all packed and I'm my truck to go meet the crew And I'm to get on the road, already one foot out the door Turn and it's my daughter, she's cryin' daddy is leavin' Knows that I'll be gone for months and it and I hate to see it down and tell her, "Look, baby, I promise I'll call you everyday And daddy will sing you prayers from that we go play" But that's not enough, and it's my heart in two Just I can't stay, not even to see it through And that I can't tuck her in, to say goodbye a grin Now she's left behind, this is me all over again, man I picked her up in my arms and held her And said, "Hey you know what? used to be just like you When I walk up to the bus And I'd do anything in the world for you, so chase your One day you'll use everything you've been through to be anything, baby This is my
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