I look in the mirror and think about how it all started town Alabama, from city life we departed Not a single light in the street, was scary and dark To a little boy the bus to school 5:30 sharp I used to make up songs to keep my mind from What was in the woods waiting for me, my still rumbling From the cereal though mama was trying to do the best that she could Alcohol made her Her was a prick, probably 26 Barely my direction and really didn't do shit My animosity grew with my anger And disastrous school My knew I was trouble waiting And I did too, admittedly but I it I had to accept I'd always be uninvited to church events, football and family oriented stuff But I never I had it rough I embraced it, honestly, I knew how different I was It me a rebel and rebels made me feel welcomed and loved I never knew my daddy but, they said that I was the same and what a shame, get umbrella Wayne Here comes the heavy
I'm the lighting to your storm Dark bloodstains after a The tornado to your Your hangover after a night I'm the snake outta barn one mistake you ever did right The gunpowder to your I'm son The son of a gun Son of a gun Son of a gun Son of a gun
If life is but a I'm up the creek in a paddle Streams full of snakes, demons, not a ladder goes Up and over the Mississippi to see the ocean So here I go floatin', But I it a habit though 19 and tattooed, hell-raised in the neighborhood was the place and I it home with the favorites Quarter pound of that seeded Mexican trash slinging Make enough and then break it even, just do it for Nashville's under icicles, the Methadone's Ecstasy-hungry, as an experimentation No more chocolate-chip cookies, and jars and dark are my role models, and old-school cars Sickening and I'm it I'm basking in of it Backstrokin' in sinnin' ways, a to pastors I never my daddy but, They said I was the same and what a shame come the cocaine in the heavy rain
Cause I'm the lighting to storm Dark after a dogfight The tornado to your hangover after a long night I'm the snake outta barn That one mistake you ever did The to your drum I'm son The son of a gun Son of a gun Son of a gun Son of a gun
And you can that I still don't give a fuck Still drinking whiskey I'm half-a-bottle already man, Criminals all around Seventy-thousand dollars a night isn't good, Livin' a story usin' my war as my The truth, and recreated The real: Plenty of fatherless fill up the pit in the buildin' Usin' the mind for the feelin', it's like poppin' a pill And I'm it in Lost at a win Thanks for the poems that you inspired, I'm it in Never you say "give me five," so make it a ten Think the chances I'm ballin', at the bastard of him When I went to jail for the first time, I thought you Son of a bitch, I admit it, I guess the are true 'Cause when I in the mirror, I see from what I 'came Trial by fire, pain, rain
Cause I'm the lighting to storm Dark bloodstains a dogfight The tornado to alarm Your hangover a long night I'm the snake outta your That one you ever did right The to your drum I'm son The son of a gun Son of a gun Son of a gun Son of a gun