Startin' With Me

Album: Startin' With Me (2007)
Charted: 83
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  • I had a one night stand with my best friend's baby sister
    And to this day he still won't speak to me
    I pawned my grandpa's old guitar in college
    For a case of beer and a tank of gasoline
    I took a swing at my old man one Christmas
    I never dreamed that it would be his last
    I wish mom had rung my neck
    When she caught me with those cigarettes
    Which reminds me, I'm down to my last pack

    If I had a dime
    For half the things I did
    That didn't make no sense at all
    I'd be living a little higher on the hog
    If only I'd have known
    That later on down the road
    I'd look back and not like what I see
    I'd have changed a lot of things
    Startin' with me

    I called my brother everything I could think of
    The night he wouldn't bail me out of jail
    I lost a job most folks 'round here would die for
    By laying out all night and raising hell
    And I let a woman that I love slip through my fingers
    Chalk another dumb move up to my foolish pride
    I wasn't there standin' by the bed
    When the preacher bowed his head
    With the family the day my grandma died

    If I had a dime
    For half the things I did
    That didn't make no sense at all
    I'd be living a little higher on the hog
    If only I'd have known
    That later on down the road
    I'd look back and not like what I see
    I'd have changed a lot of things
    Startin' with me

    If only I'd have known
    That later on down the road
    I'd look back and not like what I see
    Whoa, I'd have changed a lot of things
    Startin' with me
    Startin' with me Writer/s: Jimmy Ritchey, Joshua Ryan Owen, Kendall Marvel
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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