Man Like Me

Walk out of an alley with a bloody dollar bill

Holdin your lunch money that no bully's gonna steal

Put that dime left over with the others in a box

To buy your grandpa a new Buck knife to replace the one you lost

Steal your daddy's Pontiac and plant it in a ditch

Watch him walk to work all week till he could get it fixed

Work it off on the weekends sweatin in a mill

Go there with a debt to pay and leave there with a skill

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That's how you make a boy become, more than just his father's son

Fight and crawl, climb and fall, stand tall on your knees

That's how you make a man like me

Pick up that telephone you wish you never heard

Take the longest two mile drive you ever took to her

Wait as she takes that test cause you just couldn't wait

And taste bittersweet victory when she says 'we're ok'

Let your buddytleavfe a party, and don't ask him for his keys

Rest that casket on the shoulder where your best friend used to lean

See that baby boy's whole life flash right before his mama's eyes

Live with knowin you could've saved his life

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Kick your self for stumblin, but never leave your feet

Lie awake with your mistakes and find peace piece by piece

Pray that you wake up as who you want to be

That's how you make a man like me.