What She Had To
|
|
I was three years old sitting in the seat of a Greyhound bus
|
My brother and me, Mama's tears falling like a Carolina rain
|
|
Cause she pulled out a gun the night before
|
Said he ain't gonna drink and hit me no more
|
She pulled the trigger on my father in a moment's rain
|
|
Thank God that gun wasn't loaded
|
Didn't know where to go or how she'd survive
|
Didn't care, anywhere but there that night
|
|
Now she held her babies tight
|
And we rode through the cold of the midnight blue
|
She was scared, she was broke
|
But all she knew was she was gonna do
|
What she had to
|
|
She got her a job in a trailer out west
|
It wasn't much but she was doing her best
|
Putting food on the table for her family
|
|
But then one day I came home from school
|
My Mama was crying alone in her room
|
She said, I lost my job and we're gonna lose the trailer too
|
And she got that volkswagon loaded
|
Didn't know where to go or how she'd survive
|
Didn't care, anywhere but there that night
|
|
She held her babies tight
|
And we rode through the cold of the midnight blue
|
She was scared, she was broke
|
But all she knew was she was gonna do
|
What she had to
|
|
Whenever things go wrong in my life
|
I just think of her, what it took that night
|
To get on that bus in a Carolina rain
|
|
Didn't know where to go or how she'd survive
|
Didn't care, anywhere but there that night
|
|
She held her babies tight
|
(She held her babies tight)
|
And we rode through the cold of the midnight blue
|
She was scared, she was broke
|
But all she knew was she was gonna do
|
What she had to
|
What she had to (what she had to)
|
Yeah, yeah, ooooh, what she had to
|
What she had to
|
|
-----------------
|
What She Had To
|
| Lonestar |
