my mama told me,
go make yourself some friends or you'll be lonely
once I was seven years old

it was a big, big world but we thought we were bigger
pushing each other to the limits, we were learning quicker
by eleven, smoking herb and drinking burning liquor
never rich so we were out to make that steady figure

once i was twenty years old, my story got told
before the morning sun, when life was lonely
once i was twenty years old

i always had that dream like the people before me
so i started writing songs i started writing stories
something about that glory just always seemed to bore me
cause only those i really love will ever really know me