Just to Prove I Could

Started a war when I quit school

Broke my mama’s heart and my daddy’s rule

I was as wrong as my new tattoo

But some folks are cool and some folks ain’t

I hit the road had it all figured out

Hitched a ride on a semi southbound

I thought I’d just float around

But you can’t float far on a hundred and some change

I damn sure left that town for good

Just to prove I could

Got me a job didn’t pay very much

But I saved up enough for an old fixer upper

Motor was strong and she had good rubber

On secondhand tires all the way around

Bucket of rust it looked like hell

Was the butt of the jokes my buddies would tell

'Til the day that Jenny Thompson fell

For me and that rumblin' muffler sound

Drove a poor boy’s truck through a rich girl’s neighborhood

Just to prove I could

Hell bent on a hell bound road

I went further than she wanted to go

Kept hitting the gas she was hitting the brakes

I took some innocence that wasn’t mine to take

I wasn’t one for going slow

God I wish she’d have told me no

Lost a life of love for a night of feeling good

Just to prove I could

Can’t put my finger on

The day the whiskey stopped going down wrong

I was as weak as it was strong

And I crawled up inside that glass

I had a friend try to pull me out

Lord knows where he is now

He told me I oughta to put it down

And I told him he oughta kiss my ass

I dropped him right there where he stood

Just to prove I could

Hell bent on a hell bound road

My whole life spinning out of control

It wasn’t his business anyway

I was too drunk to fight and way too gone to stay

Wasn’t one for backing down

Lord, I wish he’d have stood his ground

Looked past a friend looking out for my own good

Just to prove I could

You can only go on so long

Losing yourself before your gone

And there’s no one left to tell you you’re wrong

And it’s up to you to get it right

There’s those that said I never would

But I finally started living like I should

Just to prove I could