Stayed Alive in 45

Hey boy wont you take seat

Grandma'll fix you somethin to eat

I gotta few things i'd like to say to you

Haven't spoke a word since the fight

But i wanna talk now only god knows why

Take a couple minutes, can i have a few?

He told me a story that i never heard

I hung onto every word

Just a few years older then you

They sent me to a place i barely knew

A whole other world on the other side

Livin off the food the army lent

And the cigarettes my mama sent

I stayed alive in 45

Along the riverside we were runnin

Yea son you could hear em comin

Came to a fork, bridge on the right

Sargeant looked us dead in the eye

Said five of you boys are gunna stay behind

And slow em down, so we can run into the night

I heard my name and i started to shake

For my brothers to live yea i know what its gunna take

So i hunkered on in and i said a prayer

Talked to god like he was standin right there

I got so much to do before i die

People always say theres a greater plan

But i swear to you ill be a better man

If i stay alive in 45

     

Ive seen the sights and ive heard the sounds

Of a lotta good men drop and hit the ground

        

But i aint goin out like that there aint no way

Cuz its not my day

Its not my day

They got so close i could see their breath

They looked right, but they went left

Shoulda seen it when we ran like hell

Today im livin well

Can look my grandson in the eye

One day you'll have kids and a wife

You can tell em they can sleep tight

Cuz i stayed alive in 45