Lyrics

FOR THE LIFE OF ME
(Marna Bales, Jody Boyd, Melanie Cox)

For the life of me
Why am I going back
Swore I'd never
Cross these tracks
Again when I left them
In 1983

My old man
He fenced me in
His narrow mind
Drove me to sin
It was his way or the highway
So I hit the road

Drove as far as my car would take me
To every crooked little town
Out running in the fast lane
About put me in the ground
But this morning when I woke up I was empty and alone
So I got in this car and said it?s time to go back home

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For the life of me
Why didn?t I see
Forgiveness is all I need
For the life of me

Too many years
Of stubborn pride
Does my daddy know
I?m dying inside
As the miles pass the phone rings
Mama says his time has come

There?s only one more exit
And I?ll hit the edge of town
Can I mend these broken fences
before he?s buried in the ground?
Thinkin? about the last time I saw him as I cross these railroad tracks
He was standin? on the front porch he said leave and don?t come back

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Same crooked fence
Same creakin? stairs
Same curtain blowing
In that same sweet air
But it?s a different time
Is he a different man?
I move to him and he reaches out his hand

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