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BORN THE SON OF A MIDWEST TOWN,
WOULDN’T BE FOUND STICKIN’ AROUND
BORN TO CARE OF A SELFISH BITCH
TOO STONED TO EVEN CARE
NEVER WANTED HIM

THAT WOMAN WENT AND FOUND A MAN, WOULD NEVER LEAVE HER SON THE SAME AGAIN
HE TORTURED THE SKIN AND HE TORTURED THE SOUL,
AND LEFT THAT BOY DEEP IN A HOLE
AND TOLD HERSELF THAT IT WAS ALL OKAY, TO LET THAT MAN TREAT HER SON THAT WAY,
BUT TIME HAD GONE BY AND THE MOTHER WAS HIGH
AND SHE SOLD HER SON FOR THE SAKE OF ‘GETTING-BY’

OF ALL THE THINGS THAT MEAN ‘A LIFE’
GOD, LOVE, AND PERHAPS A WIFE
WITH ALL HE HAD AND ALL HE HAD KNOWN,
ALL HE WANTED WAS A HOME

THE SON COULDN’T BE KEPT IN HIS HOLE, HE FOUND SOME LOVE IN ROCK-N-ROLL
THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE IT ALL GO AWAY, WAS TO PICK UP HIS GUITAR AND PLAY
FINDING SONGS TO TOUCH HIS SOUL, KEPT HIM ALIVE AND MADE HIM WHOLE
SOMETHING TO LOVE AND CARE ABOUT, IT WOULD HAVE TO DO UNTIL HE GOT OUT

OF ALL THE THINGS THAT MEAN ‘A LIFE’
GOD, LOVE, AND PERHAPS A WIFE
WITH ALL HE HAD AND ALL HE HAD KNOWN,
ALL HE WANTED WAS A HOME

MADE UP HIS MIND WHEN HE WAS HALF A MAN THAT HE WOULD HAVE TO MAKE A STAND
IT ALL WENT DOWN WHEN THEY STARTED TO SHOUT AND ALL HE WANTED WAS TO GET OUT
THE SCREAMING, THE BEATING, THE BROKEN GLASS
IT STARTED GOING DOWN LIKE IT DID IN THE PAST
HE BROKE OUT IN ANGER AS HE WENT FOR THE DOOR AND LEFT THAT MAN BLEEDING ON THE FLOOR

“BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER,” OR SO THEY SAY
SO HE TRIED TO GET HIS MOM TO RUN AWAY
BUT TIME HAD GONE BY AND THE MOTHER WAS HIGH
AND SHE SOLD HER SOUL FOR THE SAKE OF ‘GETTING-BY’

OF ALL THE THINGS THAT MEAN ‘A LIFE’
GOD, LOVE, AND PERHAPS A WIFE
WITH ALL HE HAD AND ALL HE HAD KNOWN,
ALL HE WANTED WAS A HOME

NOW HE’S FREE AND HE HAS ‘A LIFE’
TWO GREAT KIDS AND A STUBBORN WIFE
WITH ALL HE HAD AND ALL HE HAD KNOWN,
HE FINALLY HAS GOT HIS, GOT HIS HOME