Raised Up

It was Soda cans and pellet guns

Runnin' through a briar patch gettin' cut up

Same ole jeans and they all tore up

Cause 25/8, gotta get it out the slums

Sittin 'round the barrel while you watch a flame flicker

A highways cool, but a dirt road's thicker

Hat to the back with a full tank of gas

Windows rolled down, foot heavy on the gas

And when a dirt road callin' my name

It's somethin' that I just can't shake

Like riding down through the water

Ripples and the hollers

Blame it on the way I’s raised

'Cause I was raised on, handed downland

I was Brought up readin’ them words in red

A man only eats by the work he did

And ya don’t stop

Till the sun drops

Yeah, I was raised up, like a bass out the creek

And my Roots run deep like that old oak tree

A lot of things change, but you can't change me

No, it ain't much

But it’s was how I was raised up

Mama said don’t grow up fast

You're only young once, so make it last

Like the last sip of whiskey in that flask

Or the last Marlboro in that pack

The fire only burns till you run outta gas

And the lights turn off when the clock turns past

Yo time on Earth, and now you’re in the dirt

'Cause that's where ya started first

I love the way that a porch swing sangs

Like the sound of amazing grace

Like a bobber on the water or Sunday at the altar

Some things just don't change

'Cause I was raised on, handed downland

I was Brought up readin’ them words in red

A man only eats by the work he did

And ya don’t stop

Till the sun drops

Yeah, I was raised up, like a bass out the creek

And my Roots run deep like that old oak tree

A lot of things change, but you can't change me

No, it ain't much

But it’s was how I was raised up

It was ridin’ round town, Brooks & Dunn on the speakers

It was fishin' in the woods, and I was fightin' with the skeeters

Sleepin' on a Sunday morn, mama come and woke me up

Told me if it’s shit I want, then imma have to git r done

'Cause I was raised on, handed downland

I was Brought up readin’ them words in red

A man only eats by the work he did

And ya don’t stop

Till the sun drops

Yeah, I was raised up, like a bass out the creek

And my Roots run deep like that old oak tree

A lot of things change, but you can't change me

No, it ain't much

But it’s was how I was raised up