Way back in Alabama where the dirt cut through the woods And when it you can smell the steam off the grass Even dew on the of my paw paw's 1985 Chevrolet Silverado I must been about six Life was so easy back in the 16 year old mother fought for the she wanted for her son Lookin' for love in the of rock and roll is where it begun It was Alabama, Ted Alice Cooper, Randy Aerosmith kept my stepdaddy on the And life, it was Cocaine and filled up the house party to be frank It wasn't too long before I tried it myself and then to drink School became boring and doing my became rollin' joints Now I'm sixteen like my mama was when she had a boy Can't imagine it now as I look back 'cause I got three 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 brought me to this And made me who I am on recording And this is my
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20 old in the streets and I'm rollin' with gangsters now Hip-hop is takin' 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 and skateboardin' Graffiti, loiterin', I sorta got my from the chaos Was no "mother-may-I's," by have-nots And maybe some day I's I was against the grain, even when I was wheat Got back into and roll, and then got into poetry Started expressin' everything I could the medium of pen and pad Playin' instrumentals off a tape and then over-dubbin' I had It was everything, because I had And man that was alright, now I had somethin' Little did I know that would be the thing to do God ever put before me So I a look at what I've been through And I made it my glory, and is...
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It's a 2 AM bus from 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 around and it's my daughter, cryin' 'Cause daddy is Knows that be gone for months and it hurts and I hate to see it Kneel down and her, "Look, baby, I promise I'll call you everyday And daddy will sing you prayers from everywhere we go play" But that's not enough, and breakin' my heart in two Just I can't stay, not even to see it through And that I can't her in, to say goodbye with a grin Now bein' left behind, this is me all over again, man I picked her up in my and held her tight And said, "Hey you know what? Daddy used to be like you When I would up to the bus And I'd do anything in the world for you, so chase your One day use everything you've been through to be anything, baby girl is my story
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