He Never Got Enough

Album: Sweet Old World (1992)
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  • His mama ran off when he was just a kid
    So he never really knew her at all
    Just a picture of a girl in a sad blue dress
    Hanging beside a cross on the wall
    His daddy used to drive those eighteen wheelers
    Now he drives the bottle deep into the night
    He was always saying son, you're just no good
    You'll never do anything right

    He never got enough love in all his life
    He wasn't brought up right he never got enough love
    The screams and the bruises and the broken bottles
    These were things he understood
    From busted chairs to a broken heart
    He got away as soon as he could

    When he was just eighteen he got his very own gun
    Shot a kid near a liquor store one night
    He was all mixed up he never understood why
    He was only lookin' to prove his daddy right
    He never got enough love in all his life
    He wasn't brought up right he never got enough love
    He never got enough love in all his life
    He wasn't brought up right he never got enough love Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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