Sharp edges have consequences We all fall down We live somehow Stay along the beaten path, never listened when she said I guess that I had to find out for myself Now every scar is a story I can tell We learn what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger Mama

Come in, she said I'll give ya shelter from the storm 'Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood When blackness was a virtue the road was full of mud I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form And if I pass this way again, you can rest

Just wanna party, I don't wanna hurt nobody Mama ain't raise no fool Daddy told me never leave the house without my tool Papa told me never trust a sucka nigga from the streets Grandma said she love me and she always praying for me But I just wanna

And she left a little letter said she's gonna make a stop in Nevada Goodbye, goodbye. Oh, and now she's heading out to California With some money in her pocket she's a rocket on the fourth of July He always found it hard to take her She wouldn't listen

Baby, you can drive my car Beep beep'm beep beep yeah Yes, I'm gonna be a star And maybe I'll love you Asked a girl what she wanted to be She said baby, can't you see I want to be famous, a star on the screen But you can do something in between I told

Oh oh oh I wanna go crazy Whoa yeah it felt good on my lips You can go crazy too I wanna go crazy with you Everybody sayin' whoa how sweet it is Whoa how sweet it is She said her name was a hand me down name From the side of a family that long ago came

She said goodbye too many times before This love has taken its toll on me And her heart is breaking in front of me Her heart is breaking in front of me I have no choice 'cause I won't say goodbye anymore I was so high, I did not recognize The fire

What tonight looks like Yeah, what my baby told me Oh, what my baby told me She said "I likes my big daddy, but I'm crazy about his Pontiac" We gon' drive out on the highway, turn the bright lights on Oh, driving on the highway, and he cut the bright

In the back of that red rag top She said please don't stop I was back in that red rag top On the day she stopped loving me I was twenty and she was eighteen We were just about as wild as we were green In the ways of the world She'd pick me up in that red

I might as well get stoned Might as well get stoned Get it off my mind Ain't got a thing to do All I've got is time The bottle's all I've had to be a friend of mine And since my whiskey's gone Well, she said, she didn't love me And kicked me out the door