Song Description

The narrator recalls their father's words of advice and muses on how come he never managed to leave the small town in question.

Lyrics

Your Daddy?s eyes

I remember when the sun turned cold
Riding along an Alabama road
Me and my brother shouting loud as we can
Look at our Daddy?s brand new Trans-Am
Riding up front we were sat on his knee
He?s come home from work early at the factory
For one hot afternoon in 1985
He hid the troubles he kept deep inside

Chorus:
He said your back is broad and the world is wide
Stand up straight and hold your head up high
You?ve got your Daddy?s eyes
Take your chances do the best you can
Don?t stick around here like your old man
You?ve got your Daddy?s eyes

That old car hid his tears of rage
And the years that the bottle used to add to his age
He could close them doors and hit the high beam lights
Cut a hole through the dark in the dead of the night
He sold the Trans-Am when my Mom got sick
Said it was killing him just keeping up with it
Said he?d sooner get a new one most anyhow
That?s 20 years have gone by now

Chorus:
He said your back is broad and the world is wide
Stand up straight and hold your head up high
You?ve got your Daddy?s eyes
Take your chances do the best you can
Don?t stick around here like your old man
You?ve got your Daddy?s eyes

Bridge:
I could never figure out between him and the bottle who ruled each others? lives
And I knew deep down if I ever started drinking we?re too much of the same kind