Kids Like Me

Kids like me, we were sweating in the pews

Praying daddy had money when the light bill was due

But kids like me had to raise ourselves

'Cause Mama was a little too busy out raising hell

Kids like me, we scraped by with scraped-up knees

Cussed the roots of our family tree

We would swear we was old, going on twenty-three

So what we grew up too fast?

So what there ain't no going back?

It is what it is and that's just that

I wouldn't change it, no, I wouldn't change it

'Cause that tough love's like gasoline

Have to kick down doors if we don't have a key

No, we know how to spray paint brown grass green

All of us kids who didn't get to be kids like me

Well, kids like me went to work 'fore we went to class

Spent study hall sleeping off a swing shift, busting our ass

Kids like me could complain, but we won't make you listen

Too busy living to sit around wishing we were anyone else

Anywhere else

So what we grew up too fast?

So what there ain't no going back?

It is what it is and that's just that

I wouldn't change it, no, I wouldn't change it

'Cause that tough love's like gasoline

Have to kick down doors if we don't have a key

No, we know how to spray paint brown grass green

All of us kids who didn't get to be kids like me

Ohhh, ohh, ohhh

Ohhh, oh-oh

Ohhh, ohh

So what we grew up too fast?

So what there ain't no going back?

It is what it is and that's just that

I wouldn't change it, no, I wouldn't change it

'Cause that tough love's like gasoline

Have to kick down doors if we don't have a key

No, we know how to spray paint brown grass green

All of us kids who didn't get to be kids like me

Like me