James Lyrics

She never could kick addiction

I knew her 20 years

Worked and cried and sweat and dyed our prom hair

Almost dead a dozen times

We were stupid and young

I grew up had to take care

She couldn't seem to come

Every choice she made was wrong and then

All the good ones gone

The only thing she did right

Was a perfect little boy

She used him like a pawn to get what

She couldn't work for

Was a whirlwind of what can never be

Right before our eyes was

The best that we could see

She got busted with a truckload she's the only one they found

Two consecutive life sentences handed down

By the time that she was booked I had James in Baton Rouge

Headed for New England nothing left to lose

No one asked us questions everyone a helping hand

I pretended fire took our ID's all we had

We started a new life as a son and mom and we

Made a better family

He meant the world to me

It took a couple years he don't remember her at all

Never left an address didn't ever call

Last summer I drove back with my fake ID

Showed her a picture of him and me

I left there with a prayer word of thanks of what went on

That she was still in prison he was safe at home

And I never did once look back

It's been a crooked path

But it brought us back

To the work and tears and sweat brush his hair for school

Teaching how to pray and the golden rule

Wishing for the best in everything we do

Knowing what goes on we'll always get through

Was a whirlwind of what is and what should be

Right before our eyes was

The best that we could see

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