Burning Letter Lyrics

It's been 20 years

I wish I could say that I was making this up

My Ma and Pa that nurtured me since I was young

Done left me standing as a man

All alone and that's tough

Never thought that it would come to this but it did

Face facts

I gotta face facts like ajax on a dirty stove

It's been 20 years

I really wish it didn't come to this

But it did

I'm sorry to all those I'm bout to expose

But when I catch ya sleeping in class

With boogers dripping out ya nose

Imma take a picture, rewind the wheel and relax

I got no more time to deal like blackjack

I'm taking first class to the place where this began

Where all of this began

And I'll take ya with me take ya by the hand

it'll be hard to understand

I hope you understand Young man

The inner me the younger child

Crouched in the corner of his bedroom

Guitar on the stand

A picture of the past

Posters on the wall of past idols

Now torn off the hinge like the door

Dad yelling at the wall with a bottle

Passing out on the floor

Momma walking in just got home from work

Shaking her head

Saying

Baby that's just how it go

So it goes

It's been 20 years

I wish I could say that I was making this up

My ma and pa that nurtured me since I was young

Done left me standing as a man

All alone and that's tough

Never thought that it would come to this but it did

Face facts

Sneaking a snack, eyeing the fridge

My pops asleep on the lazy

Nowhere to be, no one to fear

I'm feeling like a brand new baby

I heard a stirring

In the room adjacent

My heart skipped about a million paces

As I'm racing to my safe haven

I'm hoping Pa don't find the bottles

I tried to hide in the basement

All of this is a memory now, a present

Like the day I landed after I jumped

From a plane and the parachute didn't open

Thinking: what if I died? Immortalized

In the grass dirt and pine trees

Wondering who can I find to bring honor to my family?

Crazy

I showed the world outside my family life is

Something to be proud

While I was the one who was looked down on

How come

It's been 20 years

I wish I could say that I was making this up

My ma and pa that nurtured me since I was young

Done left me standing as a man

All alone and that's tough

Never thought that it would come to this but it did

Face facts

Standing, dripping, shivering

Smoking cigarettes in the rain

There's no pressure in this moment

But it's filled with so much pain

I can't help but think the first step I take

In the kitchen I'm gonna get

I'mma get the lesson's lesson

That I've repeated throughout history

Standing, dripping, shivering,

Smoking cigarettes in the rain

There's no pressure in this moment

But it's filled with so much pain

I can't help but think the first step I take

In the kitchen I'm gonna get

I'mma get the lesson's lesson

That I've repeated throughout history