I look in the mirror sometimes and think about how it all town Alabama, from city life we departed Not a single in the street, morning was scary and dark To a boy catching the bus to school 5:30 sharp I used to make up songs to keep my mind wandering What was in the woods for me, my stomach still rumbling From the diet Even mama was trying to do the best that she could Alcohol her violent Her was a prick, probably 26 Barely looked my and really didn't do shit My animosity grew along with my And impatience disastrous My teachers I was trouble waiting And I did too, but I like it I had to accept I'd always be uninvited to church events, football and family oriented stuff But I never thought I had it I embraced it, honestly, 'cause I knew how I was It made me a rebel and rebels me feel welcomed and loved I never knew my daddy but, they said that I was the same and what a shame, get your umbrella Here the heavy rain
Cause I'm the to your storm Dark bloodstains a dogfight The tornado to your hangover after a long night I'm the snake your barn one mistake you ever did right The gunpowder to drum I'm son The son of a gun Son of a gun Son of a gun Son of a gun
If is but a dream I'm up the creek in a boat Streams full of snakes, demons, not even a goes Up high and over the Mississippi to see the So I go floatin', yeah 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 seeded Mexican trash slinging nickles Make enough and then break it even, do it for tickles Nashville's icicles, the Methadone's penatratin' Ecstasy-hungry, baited as an No more chocolate-chip cookies, and porcelain and dark are my role models, and old-school cars Sickening and I'm it I'm in half of it Backstrokin' in sinnin' ways, a dagger to I never my daddy but, They that I was the same and what a shame come the cocaine in the heavy rain
Cause I'm the lighting to your Dark bloodstains after a The tornado to alarm Your hangover after a night I'm the snake your 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
And you can tell that I still don't a fuck Still drinking whiskey I'm half-a-bottle already Slumerican-made man, Criminals all Seventy-thousand a night isn't good, look a story usin' my war as my shield The truth, examined and The real: Plenty of fatherless fill up the pit in the buildin' the mind for the feelin', it's just like poppin' a pill And I'm it in Lost at a win Thanks for the poems you inspired, I'm rakin' it in heard 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 it, I guess the rumours are true 'Cause when I look in the mirror, I see what I 'came Trial by fire, pain, heavy
Cause I'm the to your storm bloodstains after a dogfight The tornado to alarm Your after a long night I'm the outta your 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