[00:25.26]I was born in Rochester to a book-making man
[00:32.93]Had a fake cigar shop with the games on in the back
[00:39.56]See them coming and going letting it ride on through breads
[00:47.01]The police chief and Tom Hall wondering what was spread
[00:56.08]I carried rich mans bags through brier trying to chase down a little white ball
[01:03.42]Learned the any soft place wasn't good for me at all
[01:10.78]Daddy'd come home fired up looking for some sort of release
[01:17.82]He'd beat the hell of Timmy and Timmy'd beat the hell out of me
[01:25.09][02:25.76]I would hop the fence out to those government fields
[01:33.13][02:33.76]Run till there was nothing more to feel
[01:40.30][02:41.07]Lying there,watching,please just disappear
[01:46.93][02:47.32]Knowing one day I'm gonna fly on out of here
[01:54.92]The same police chief came knocking my first freshman day
[02:02.65]Put my daddy in handchuffs and his picture on the front page
[02:09.95]Took every one of his suits and all my dignity
[02:17.16]I'd walk the halls of Irondequoit looking for any punk to set me free
[02:56.12]Got that call to Vietnam,just like everyone else I knew
[03:02.97]So scared of the hand grenades,threw them farther than any other troop
[03:10.12]Came home like an iron fist and Timmy tried to take my keys
[03:17.45]Ripped open his from pocket that was the last time he touched me
[03:26.52]Moved to an island out west and up to Breckenridge
[03:33.75]Met a mermaid on a glass boat and she promised me some kids
[03:40.89]Bought a house in Oregon where you could touch both of the walls
[03:48.09]Had a son named Benjamin and I was so scared of it all
[04:25.80]Well,Benjamin walked in the front room where I was cutting up my hash
[04:33.46]Looked into his deep blue eyes wondering why I'd been so mad
[04:40.51]Flushed a quarter pround down the drain,praying for the mercy to confess
[04:47.78]Trying to rip the boy from Rochester right out of my chest
[04:56.96]We're gonna walk right out into those heavenly fields
[05:04.58]Run like there was no more time to steal
[05:11.91]My three boys and the grace of god revealed
[05:18.51]Knowing one day you're gonna take me out of here