[00:02.116]I never knew my mother
[00:03.889]I can't say it was so bad
[00:06.506]She was still a girl of seventeen the night she met my dad
[00:10.307]He was just six months out of chino
[00:13.119]Trying his hardest to stay clean
[00:15.074]And they'd sing and they'd sing and they'd sing
[00:19.916]Like doves sleeping with broken wings
[00:24.322]In a bed fit for a king
[00:30.384]It didn't mean a thing
[00:32.883]It was shot gun forest wedding
[00:34.860]And they forgot to bring the gun
[00:37.077]As they were busy counting promises
[00:39.723]To the children not yet born
[00:42.028]No one could afford the ride
[00:43.623]Everyone hitched up with the 101
[00:46.339]And they'd sing and they'd sing and they'd sing
[00:50.698]Like doves dancing with broken wings
[00:55.162]With a view fit for a king
[01:01.277]It didn't mean a thing
[01:03.885]It was a loneliness
[01:05.162]They would confess
[01:06.138]Like the world had gone bad I guess
[01:08.339]So they hold hands and look into the eyes of god
[01:12.428]They'd say tell me why'd ya hide from us
[01:14.750]Why'd ya fill the world with wickedness
[01:17.123]Why'd ya spare us from the grace but not the rot
[01:23.445]Now my dad says **** the details
[01:25.687]Just keep your head down hard
[01:27.825]Ya got to find yourself alone before you'll find the eyes of God
[01:31.946]You make broke and scared and out of jail
[01:34.671]Out the flesh of your own heartstrings
[01:36.591]But you were born to be a peasant not a king
[01:41.133]So just stop acting like your running from something
[01:45.683]Ya gonna leave the way you came without a thing
[01:49.949]With your heart tattooed and your mind tied to a string
[01:54.455]You just sing and you sing and you sing
[02:00.557]It doesn't mean a thing
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