More songs by Walker Hayes
Description
Lyricist, Composer, Keyboards, Programmer, Producer, Recording Engineer: Warren "Oak" Felder
Composer, Vocal, Associated Performer, Guitar, Lyricist, Producer: Walker Hayes
Lyricist, Composer: Ben Williams
Composer, Lyricist: Sebastian Kole
Mixing Engineer: Joe Thibodeau
Mastering Engineer: Brad Blackwood
Lyrics and translation
Original
Thirteen, I was already leaning on a bottle.
Daddy beat us with a belt, preacher beat us with a Bible. Down in south Alabama, dog river, cattails.
I was scared of my brother when he got out of jail.
Bought a Chevy, drove Lainey Bell to the levee. We were getting out of Dodge ready. Class of '98.
Ain't called y'all in a minute, but hey.
Mama, I still keep my mobile alive, in my pocket like a pocket knife. Take it out every once in a smile.
Whittle on a memory for a little while. Thank God the shit that went wrong, taught me how to write country songs.
Ain't it funny how a childhood trauma cuts you deep and sharpens you, don't it mama?
Said I'ma throw a little Tupac on the mic.
I ain't mad at your mama 'cause it ain't like I was one of those on the road bumper sticker kids. I know you tried like
Merle's mama did. But I was too proud, turning my twelves up too loud.
I was just a baby, got a few now. Wish I could call Dad.
I just called to say, "Don't be sad. " Mama, I still keep my mobile alive, in my pocket like a pocket knife.
Take it out every once in a smile. Whittle on a memory for a little while.
Thank God the shit that went wrong, taught me how to write country songs.
Ain't it funny how a childhood trauma cuts you deep and sharpens you, don't it mama?
Too long, way too long. Since I took that drive to the two-five-one.
Too long, way too long. Down sixty-five, Bama, here I come. Too long, way too long.
Since I took that drive to the two-five-one. Too long, way too long.
Down sixty-five, Bama, here I come.
Mama, I still keep my mobile alive, in my pocket like a pocket knife. Take it out every once in a smile.
Whittle on a memory for a little while.
Thank God the shit that went wrong, taught me how to write country songs.
Ain't it funny how a childhood trauma cuts you deep and sharpens you, don't it mama?
'Cause she deep and sharpens you, don't it mama?
'Cause she deep and sharpens you, don't it mama?