I look in the sometimes and think about how it all started Small Alabama, from city life we departed Not a single light in the street, morning was scary and To a little boy the bus to school 5:30 sharp I to make up songs to keep my mind from wandering What was in the woods waiting for me, my still rumbling From the diet Even though mama was trying to do the best that she Alcohol made her Her boyfriend was a prick, 26 Barely my direction and really didn't do shit My animosity grew with my anger And disastrous school My teachers knew I was 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 thought I had it rough I embraced it, honestly, 'cause I how different I was It made me a rebel and rebels made me feel welcomed and I never knew my daddy but, said that I was the same and what a shame, get your umbrella Wayne Here comes the rain
Cause I'm the to your storm Dark after a dogfight The tornado to your Your hangover after a night I'm the snake outta barn 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
If is but a dream I'm up the in a paddle boat Streams full of snakes, demons, not even a ladder 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 made it home with the Quarter pound of seeded Mexican trash slinging nickles Make enough and then break it even, do it for tickles Nashville's under icicles, the penatratin' Ecstasy-hungry, baited as an No more chocolate-chip cookies, and jars Morbid and dark are my role models, and old-school and I'm lovin' it I'm in half of it Backstrokin' in sinnin' ways, a dagger to I knew my daddy but, They said that I was the same and what a come the cocaine in the heavy rain
Cause I'm the to your storm Dark bloodstains a dogfight The tornado to your Your hangover after a 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 tell that I still don't give a Still drinking whiskey I'm already down Slumerican-made man, Criminals all Seventy-thousand dollars a night isn't good, Livin' a usin' my war as my shield The truth, examined and The followings Plenty of fatherless children up the pit in the buildin' Usin' the mind for the feelin', just like poppin' a pill And I'm it in at makin' a win Thanks for the poems that you inspired, I'm it in Never heard you say "give me five," so 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 after a The tornado to alarm Your after a long night I'm the snake outta barn That one mistake you 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