Way back in Alabama where the dirt roads cut through the And when it rains you can smell the steam off the Even dew on the hood of my paw paw's 1985 Silverado I must have been six Life was so back in the sticks 16 year old mother for the life she wanted for her son Lookin' for love in the world of rock and is where it begun It was Alabama, Ted Alice Cooper, Travis Aerosmith my stepdaddy on the road And life, it was Cocaine and alcohol up the house party to be frank It wasn't too before I tried it myself and then started to drink School became boring and doing my homework became joints Now I'm sixteen like my mama was she had a little boy Can't imagine it now as I back 'cause I got three kids of my own And I respect what she through to pay for food and clothes And her 'Cause it ain't she did, it's what she didn't do for me brought me to this moment And made me who I am on this And is my story
is my story This is my This is keeps me alive is me flying This is me This is what me alive
20 years old in the and I'm rollin' with gangsters now is takin' over me, my language, my clothes, my lifestyle 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 Always from police and skateboardin' Graffiti, loiterin', I sorta got my peace from the Was no "mother-may-I's," by have-nots And maybe day I's well I was against the grain, even when I was growin' Got back into rock and roll, and got into poetry Started expressin' everything I 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; from me at the lot of Wal-Mart Leavin' Nashville, Tennessee for a nationwide My bags are all packed and I'm loadin' my truck to go meet the And I'm excited to get on the road, already one out the door Turn around and my daughter, she's cryin' 'Cause is leavin' Knows that I'll be for months and it hurts and I hate to see it Kneel down and tell her, "Look, baby, I promise call you everyday And daddy will sing you prayers from everywhere we go play" But not enough, and it's breakin' my heart in two Just knowin' I stay, not even to see it through And that I can't tuck her in, to say with 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? Daddy used to be like you I would walk up to the bus And I'd do anything in the world for you, so chase dreams One day you'll use you've been through to be anything, baby girl is my story
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