Story Behind The Song

everybody has probably felt like the're starting from scratch at one time or another in their life; this was a dramatic play on the title

Song Description

song about a fellow who couldn't keep his feet straight, just like his Dad

Lyrics

last name is LaReya, first son of Sue and Timothy
got a kid of my own somewhere, you know he don?t stay with me, no
got a place in the Stay Out, you know way down Route 14
ain?t the place for a man like me whose trying to stay clean

rolling down on the highway, well, I burn another day
stopped off at a bar somewhere there was damn near a little gunplay, yeah
what a gun gonna do to me, what a man gonna say?
shoot the truth right through to me, the truth I?m a little too late

when you?re starting from scratch, baby, you?re learning to crawl
and living your life is like breaking your fall
when you?re starting from scratch, yeah, you?re beginning to see
that just living a life ain?t no reason?reason to be

thought my Dad was a good man, hell, as good as he could be
and he taught just one damn thing, get out before you in too deep
he tried living the straight life, like a smile through his crooked teeth
but all the women and all the fun kept him far from a good man?s sleep

saw him move on the darkside, I saw him fall on a Summer day
saw my mother turn her eyes as they dropped him to the clay
and they say that a tree?s leaf falls not that far away
from the fire of my father?s seed a reckless soul was made

when you?re starting from scratch, well, you?re having a ball
full of drink and full of song, feels like you?re having it all
when you?re stating from scratch and you?re wanting to dream
you fly through the air but you fall?fall in-between