Just Like You

Four years old in your overalls

Looking up with those baby blues

Heard you say, "Daddy, someday, I wanna be just like you"

Then I blinked a time or two

And now you're 17

Yeah, I know you know it all

And you think I don't know a thing

I was brushing off that angel off my shoulder

I was Saturday high, never Sunday sober

I lost a good friend around your age

So slow that truck down

'Cause it coulda been me that summer night

Yeah, it coulda been me running that red light

I still drive by that live oak tree with that wooden cross still in the ground

I know it hurt like hell when she broke your heart in two

Boy, I used to be just like you

When you walked in half past midnight

I could smell it on your breath

Like the time that I came home drunk

Scared my mama half to death

I had bloodstains on my shirts

I was busted up, black and blue

I'm not just your old man

I'm your best man, I know what you're going through

I was brushing off that angel off my shoulder

I was Saturday high, never Sunday sober

I lost a good friend around your age

So slow that truck down

'Cause it coulda been me that summer night

Yeah, it coulda been me running that red light

I still drive by that live oak tree with that wooden cross still in the ground

I know it hurt like hell when she broke your heart in two

Boy, I used to be just like you

Know I cried when grandpa died

Smoking them damned old cigarettes

He said, "The young man makes mistakes and leaves the old man with regrets"

I was brushing off that angel off my shoulder

I was Saturday high, never Sunday sober

I lost a good friend around your age

So slow that truck down

'Cause it coulda been me that summer night

Yeah, it coulda been me running that red light

I still drive by that live oak tree with that wooden cross still in the ground

I know it hurt like hell when she broke your heart in two

Boy, I used to be just like you

I know it hurt like hell when she broke your heart in two

Four years old in your overalls

Looking up with those baby blues

Heard you say, "Daddy, someday, I wanna be just like you"