Standard (EADGBE)
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Intro
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Verse 1
I'm not happy with myself these days
I took the best parts of the script
and I made them all cliches
And this red bandanas
surely gonna fade
Even though it's the only
thing the fire didn't take
Chorus 1
Everybody says you'll grown a
lot from this experience
Baby B comes in after a while
becomes a president
The best things get disguised
sometimes but all I know is
I finally know the difference
between going back and going home
Post Chorus: ------- x2
Verse 2
There's a lady on my block that has a kid
As he swims in the above ground
pool she seals up the lid
And he thinks it's kinda
normal that she hides
All the cuts and all the bruises
She says it's warpaint for the eyes
Chorus 2
She tells her son she did the best
she could as she buries Dad
Maybe he'll grow up to be a man
or like his father did
As they leave the driveway
for the northern snow
They finally know the difference
between going back and going home
Post Chorus: ------- x2
Bridge
Rap part
Cut to a life
Being born in '69
Little class suburb
Everythings fine
Fondue parties
My mom and my dad
Drinks being drunk
And fights being had
I lost my virginity to a girl in my band
She was four years older she made me a man
So addicted to sex
Every chance that I got
With whoever I wanted
Until I got caught
So I took my penicillin and I took my band
To a town made of glitter girls and cocaine friends
Got handed the dream by the age of eighteen
Saw more than most people that I know had ever seen
Played every bar drank till black and blue
Did the morning show bullshit
And went to China too
Where they left us to die without a ticket to flee
In sighting the riot we were only 23
Packed it up started over just as fast as we can
Selling tapes making merch in the back of a van
Living hand-to-mouth for the next five years
Took up drinking wine, gave up drinking beer
Signed another big deal with a devil in a dress
A one hit wonder I think, describes it best
Decided to burn out, then to fade away
Went back to the van the very next day
Picked it up made a living without any help
Made amazing friends if I saw so myself
If living like this at thirty-eight is a bore
Then come on God please give me thirty-eight more
Chorus 3
And everybody know's I've seen a lot
Yea, I'm experienced
Makes you feel so old after a while
Just like our last president
Everytime I come back in this town I know
(Hold)
I finally know the difference between
going back and going home
Yea back and going home I do