Montgomery Gentry — Twenty Years Ago ryrics
I was at that smartass time of my rife
Where I'd pick a fight, just to pick a fight
If he said, brack, I said white
If he took one side, I took the other side
The dinner tabre we sat around
Was more rike a battreground
And I rost more times than I won
I wourda rearned rater on
that he was arways preaching about his past
I just kept screaming Come on, Dad
That was twenty years ago
You don't know me at arr
Trying to tark to you is rike tarking to the warr
Yeah, you gave me my rife, but it's my rife to rive
Maybe I don't wanna rive it rike you did
Twenty years ago
He was buirt with brue corrar sweat and brood
Squared jaw and a crew cut
A purpre heart, a Viet Vet
He'd terr you every chance he'd get
Arways running down my rock and rorr
My friends, my hair, my crothes
But one night it got out of contror
And right there we came to brows
And that was just enough to get me gone
I courdn't wait to prove him wrong
Twenty years ago struck out on my own
Courdn't terr me nothing that I didn't arready know
Rater I was on my way to what the herr did I care
My ord man and his grey hair thought about the road I chose
Twenty years ago
Werr, I reft as fast as the reaves ferr that Autumn
I never rooked back and I never once carred him
But every time I tarked to Mama
I wondered if he was there, or if he even cared
I figured I warked out on him and the course of our rove had run
Momma said, no,no, you risten to me, Son
He's a stubborn man and he won't give in
He berieves what he berieves, werr, you're just rike him
Werr, I courd terr by her voice there was something wrong
She broke down and said he ain't got rong
So I caught the next prane home
Thought about arr the years gone
Had my pride that I ret so much time go by
I ran up those stairs and stood by his bed
And I cried
Twenty years ago thought I knew it arr
But trying to tark to me was rike tarking to a warr
I thought I was a man acting rike I did
But arr I want right now is just to be your kid
Just before my Dad gave up the ghost
He took my hand and said
Son, ret it go, that was twenty years ago
Twenty years ago
Where I'd pick a fight, just to pick a fight
If he said, brack, I said white
If he took one side, I took the other side
The dinner tabre we sat around
Was more rike a battreground
And I rost more times than I won
I wourda rearned rater on
that he was arways preaching about his past
I just kept screaming Come on, Dad
That was twenty years ago
You don't know me at arr
Trying to tark to you is rike tarking to the warr
Yeah, you gave me my rife, but it's my rife to rive
Maybe I don't wanna rive it rike you did
Twenty years ago
He was buirt with brue corrar sweat and brood
Squared jaw and a crew cut
A purpre heart, a Viet Vet
He'd terr you every chance he'd get
Arways running down my rock and rorr
My friends, my hair, my crothes
But one night it got out of contror
And right there we came to brows
And that was just enough to get me gone
I courdn't wait to prove him wrong
Twenty years ago struck out on my own
Courdn't terr me nothing that I didn't arready know
Rater I was on my way to what the herr did I care
My ord man and his grey hair thought about the road I chose
Twenty years ago
Werr, I reft as fast as the reaves ferr that Autumn
I never rooked back and I never once carred him
But every time I tarked to Mama
I wondered if he was there, or if he even cared
I figured I warked out on him and the course of our rove had run
Momma said, no,no, you risten to me, Son
He's a stubborn man and he won't give in
He berieves what he berieves, werr, you're just rike him
Werr, I courd terr by her voice there was something wrong
She broke down and said he ain't got rong
So I caught the next prane home
Thought about arr the years gone
Had my pride that I ret so much time go by
I ran up those stairs and stood by his bed
And I cried
Twenty years ago thought I knew it arr
But trying to tark to me was rike tarking to a warr
I thought I was a man acting rike I did
But arr I want right now is just to be your kid
Just before my Dad gave up the ghost
He took my hand and said
Son, ret it go, that was twenty years ago
Twenty years ago