Royal Street ft. ETHEL Lyrics

These scars on my hand

Don't mean I'm a bad bad man

Yeah I've had a few fights

Lived a few lives

Can you find a marker

For my sign

Don't walk on by

My mama used to say she loved me

My papa made love to whiskey

So I walked away at age 18

Sayin' "boy you better serve your country"

Got these holes in my boots from walkin'

Got these lines on my face from talkin'

They say boy get a job, get a wife, get a kid

Well have you seen the state I'm in?

Brother, can you spare a dime?

I'm just tryin' to live my life

Brother don't walk on by

Got my life on display

I ain't royalty

Got my life on display…

On Royal Street…

You know this life I'm playin'

Is a game I'll never win

Cause God gave up on a soul like mine

So I'm prayin' for a human

Human

For a human

Got these holes in my boots from walkin'

Got these lines on my face from talkin'

They say boy get a job, get a wife, get a kid

Well have you seen the state I'm in?

No cause I know the world's gone blind

Scared to waste precious time

as I

Find a place to sleep at night

They decide to assign the worth of a life…

Brother can you spare a dime?

Like it's 1929

Brother don't walk on by

Got my life on display I ain't royalty

Got my life on display…

Got my life on display…

On Royal Street…