Momma

Verse 1

Mama cried on that front porch swing

Said, “Boy, you live like a runaway flame”

I kissed her cheek and tipped my hat

Said, “Don’t you worry ‘bout where I’m at”

Got old scars and county lines

Chrome and thunder in my eyes

Yeah the law still knows my name

But I ain’t never bowed in shame

Pre-Chorus

She said, “Son, this road’s gonna break your soul”

I said, “Mama, only God controls”

Chorus

One day you’ll have to lay me in a pine box

Cold steel crosses carved in the top

But as long as I stay awoke, keep my back to the wall

It’s gonna take a long damn time for me to fall

Tell the preacher don’t pray too soon

I still got hell to raise beneath this moon

Yeah, one day they’ll send me home in a pine box

But tonight this outlaw blood still runs hot

Verse 2

Blue lights dancing in my mirror glass

Another night riding way too fast

Got brothers beside me dressed in black

And we don’t scare easy, we don’t backtrack

Mama knows I ain’t built to bend

Too wild to quit, too proud to pretend

She raised a fighter with a rebel heart

And that kinda fire never dies in the dark

Pre-Chorus

She said, “Son, every man got a maker”

I said, “Mama, mine ain’t came”

Chorus

One day you’ll have to lay me in a pine box

Cold steel crosses carved in the top

But as long as I stay awoke, keep my back to the wall

It’s gonna take a long damn time for me to fall

Tell the preacher don’t pray too soon

I still got hell to raise beneath this moon

Yeah, one day they’ll send me home in a pine box

But tonight this outlaw blood still runs hot

Bridge

If I go before my time

Put my colors by my side

Let the engines roar like thunder

As they carry me under

And tell ‘em I lived free

That’s all a man like me can be

Final Chorus

One day you’ll have to lay me in a pine box

Six feet deep beneath the hard rocks

But as long as I stay awoke and my heartbeat rolls

Ain’t nobody putting dirt on my soul

Mama wipe those tears away

Your outlaw son still rides today

Yeah, one day they’ll have to lay me in a pine box

But it’s gonna take a long damn while to make me stop