[Verse 1]
Grew up in a house with busted windows
Mama prayed
But the devil took notes
Hand-me-down shoes
Pockets full of trouble
Cold nights
Warm bottle in my coat

Slept in my truck by that old mill road
Counting change
Chasing off the cold
Belly talking louder than the radio
Ain’t nobody there when the nights get old

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I ain’t had no silver spoon
Just a hard life
Hard time
Dark rooms
You can keep your gas card
College bedroom
I paid my dues on a concrete tomb
Don’t you dare say we the same kind of blues
I bled for every mile I moved

[Verse 2]
Best friend sat in that witness stand
Swore to God
Then he raised his hand
Twenty-five years on a judge’s tongue
Steel door slammed
I was dead while young

Watched my daddy fade through a dirty screen
Nurse with the mask
Bright hospital beams
Couldn’t hold his hand when they called his name
Just a cracked old phone and a heart in chains

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[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
You had warm plates
Full tanks
Clean sheets
I had cold floors
Hot hell
Chain links
You got bailed out when you slipped and fell
I got boxed in
Locked down
Broke in that cell

[guitar solo]

[Chorus]