I remember the day I realized I couldn’t stop the war
No matter what I did or how I tried
I was 8 years old and realized I wasn’t good enough
And never would be and so I cried

My momma found me sitting on the floor
crying about things I couldn’t change
She asked me what was wrong and when I told her
This is the song she sang to me

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Oh you silly boy you don’t know what it’s like out there
with your crazy hair and your foolish ways
Oh you silly boy you don’t know what is gonna come
You don’t know where you’re coming from
Or where you’re going
Oh you silly boy

I remember the first time I fell out of love
It was cruel and broken and full of hate
I was 15 years old and realized I couldn’t fix
What I had worked so hard to create

My poppa found me sitting on the floor
Crying about things I couldn’t change
He asked me what was wrong and when I told him
This is the song he sang to me

(chorus)

I remember the last time that I went to school
Confident despite all of my strife
I was 18 years old then and doing just ok
Feeling my way clumsily through life

and I thought
Maybe when I’m older I’ll meet a strange young man
Crying about things that he can’t change
I’ll ask him what is wrong and when he tells me
This is the song I’ll sing to him

(chorus)