| Well, his Daddy sat him down, when he was just a kid
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| Said listen to me loud my son to how it is
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| Your Mom and me we tried, we just can’t get along
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| I know you’ve heard her cry but son it ain’t your fault
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| Well, I ain’t gonna be around so you’ll have to take the reins
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| Boy, I know you’re scared right now but you’re gonna do great
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| Sometimes the ride don’t go as you planned
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| No matter how hard you try, it’s outta your hands
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| And sometimes life shows up long before you want it to
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| And sometimes a boy’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do
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| Well, the years went flyin' by just like his muscle car
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| And Katie asked him for a ride and in that backseat they took it too far
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| Barely seventeen, Katie’s three weeks late
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| So he went and got a job told his Mom graduation will have to wait
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| 'Cause sometimes the ride don’t go as you planned
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| No matter how hard you try, it’s outta your hands
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| And sometimes life shows up long before you want it to
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| And sometimes a boy’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do, oh yeah
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| Now he still can’t buy a drink, but he bought a diamond for her hand
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| He’s shippin' off in fourteen days to a foreign land
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| I guess sometimes the ride don’t go as you planned
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| No matter how hard you try, it’s outta your hands
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| And sometimes life shows up long before you want it to
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| And sometimes a boy’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do |