[Mixed Whatta you what was my childhood like? What difference does that Yo, my childhood was up, so what? childhood was messed up. This is the 90's, me one person who had it right. that got to do with me rhyming? What's
Now when my mother I had to take it in stride There ain't no room for in watching your father cry And dad made it until a year later When they found his inside of a grain elevator Got it, I had no other offers or options Thought about or not mom and pop was watching Never bothered with caution, no time for Saw my folks carry fear for my early years And I learned it, turned numb and ignored the storm A burning sun waiting for the world to Finished growing up under my uncle's He taught me how to all the way up to 100 proof From watching him I how to gather nourishment Living off the different women that he had to him And on the I became a normal pre-teen More afraid of nuclear war than snake bites and bee My best was my TV Game shows and cartoons substituted for puppies, rainbows, and Now I am, the shy type, and I think I'm doing alright what it was like living my life
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It's nothing but It's all It's nothing but
Now been 17 summers since I've seen my mother But night I see her smile inside my dreams I was younger I didn't actually see the accident happen But every night I see her smile as it shatters against the I can only imagine Dad's internal Strain, burning, bound in his brain What's it to make a man who owns acres of land Abandon the family plan and himself in his grains I'm glad I left that in Northern Minnesota Where the time moves slower and the winters are Became a boy, where everybody acts like they older Where they stick to themselves and keep a on they shoulder 26 years of age, no full of rage I think it's safe to say I've turned a page on my childhood "Ay yo look Ma, I'm a productive member of I'm drunk I make noise, but otherwise I live quietly" And on the weekend I go up north to reminisce Remember it was like pretending to be a kid at night I walked the fields and lurk in the shadows Getting even with life by murdering
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It's all It's but sunshine all sunshine
(And I'm gonna be alright, and you be alright, You ain't gotta hold my hand, just walk me tonight)
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(What it is, it ain't, and it ain't it is, is a of a Virgo)