Way back in Alabama the dirt roads cut through the woods And it rains you can smell the steam off the grass Even dew on the of my paw paw's 1985 Chevrolet Silverado I must have been six Life was so easy in the sticks 16 year old mother fought for the life she for her son for love in the world of rock and roll is where it begun It was Alabama, Ted Cooper, Randy Travis Aerosmith my stepdaddy on the road And life, it was Cocaine and alcohol filled up the party to be frank It wasn't too long before I tried it myself and then started to School became boring and doing my homework became rollin' Now I'm like 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 she went through to pay for food and clothes And her 'Cause it ain't what she did, it's what she do for me That brought me to moment And made me who I am on this And this is my
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20 years old in the streets and I'm rollin' 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 young and Always running from police and Graffiti, loiterin', I got my peace from the chaos Was no "mother-may-I's," surrounded by And maybe day I's well I was against the grain, even when I was growin' Got back into rock and roll, and then got into Started expressin' I could through the medium of pen and pad Playin' instrumentals off a and then over-dubbin' what I had It was everything, I had nothin' And man that was alright, now I had somethin' Little did I know that would be the hardest to do God ever put before me So I took a look at what been through And I made it my glory, and is...
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It's a 2 AM bus 'craw; from me at the parkin' lot of Leavin' Nashville, for a nationwide tour My bags are all packed and I'm loadin' my to go meet the crew And I'm to get on the road, already one foot out the door Turn around and my daughter, she's cryin' 'Cause is leavin' Knows I'll be gone for months and it hurts and I hate to see it down and tell her, "Look, baby, I promise I'll call you everyday And daddy sing you prayers from everywhere that we go play" But that's not enough, and it's my heart in two Just knowin' I can't stay, not even to see it And that I can't tuck her in, to say goodbye a grin Now she's bein' behind, this is me all over again, man I picked her up in my arms and held her And said, "Hey you what? Daddy used to be just like you When I would up to the bus And I'd do in the world for you, so chase your dreams One day you'll use you've been through to be anything, baby girl This is my
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