I look in the mirror sometimes and 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 catching the bus to school 5:30 I used to make up songs to my mind from wandering What was in the woods for me, my stomach still rumbling From the diet Even though mama was trying to do the best she could Alcohol her violent Her boyfriend was a prick, 26 looked my direction and really didn't do shit My animosity grew along my anger And impatience disastrous My teachers knew I was trouble And I did too, but I like it Maybe I had to 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 but, they said that I was the same and what a shame, get your umbrella Wayne Here the heavy rain
Cause I'm the to your storm bloodstains after a dogfight The tornado to your Your hangover after a night I'm the snake outta barn That one mistake you 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 paddle Streams of snakes, demons, not even a ladder 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 made it with the favorites Quarter of that seeded Mexican trash slinging nickles enough and then break it even, just do it for tickles Nashville's under icicles, the penatratin' Ecstasy-hungry, baited as an 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 knew my but, They said that I was the same and a shame Here the cocaine in the heavy rain
Cause I'm the lighting to your Dark bloodstains after a The tornado to alarm Your hangover 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
And you can tell that I still don't a fuck Still drinking whiskey I'm half-a-bottle down man, Criminals all around Seventy-thousand a night isn't good, look Livin' a story usin' my war as my The truth, examined and The real: Plenty of fatherless children fill up the pit in the Usin' the mind for the feelin', it's just like a pill And I'm it in at makin' 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', look at the of him When I to jail for the first time, I thought about 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, rain
Cause I'm the lighting to storm bloodstains after a dogfight The to your alarm Your hangover after a long I'm the snake your 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