Black Thorn Rose ( No Apologies )

I was born in a ditch-side town

Where the hard rain wore the paint right down

Mama kept a match in her apron seam

Said, "Boy, don't mistake a wound for a dream"

I learned young how the mean gets fed

By the quiet things we leave unsaid

Every scar on my hands had a name

And every name came with a little flame

I bit my tongue

An held my ground

Even with the whole fuckin world

Trying to put me down

I grew blackened an thorned

In a broke-down soul

I learned to hold

What the grave tried to claim

What the rain tried to drown

I grew blackened an thorned

preacher man took my gold with a smiling face

Left me hollow in a cold dark place, ohoo give me something to believe in, I'm not buying what the preacher man is sellin

I drank my shame from a chipped glass cup

Then I watched that fire in me wake back up

Now I wear these cuts like a river map

Every wrong turn turned my heartbeat black

If you want the prize, you best pay the cost

I'm the ghost of the outlaw you thought you lost

I bit my tongue

held my ground

Even with the whole fuckin world

Trying to put me down

I came up hard

On a red dirt bend

With a busted fist

And a short-lived friend

Mama said, boy

Keep your head low

The world’s got teeth

she'll try to eat your ass,"whole,"I wore my pride

Like a worn-out coat

Fought every debt

With a sharpened throat

Shovel in hand

mud on my boots

I learned young quick

What a lie can do

I kept one name

Like a blade in the dark

Kept one flame

Burning in my heart

If the night got mean

An the river ran cold

I’d still hold on

When doves cry

No Apologies

I seen good men

Turn mean for a dime

Seen sweet vows rust

Before their time,every rose has it's thorn,

Seen love come quick,seen love blow away like dust in the wind,

Then leave no trace

Like boot tracks washed

Clean from a place,you don't know what you got until it's gone

I kept one name

Like a blade in the dark

Kept one flame

Burning in my heart

If the night got mean

An the river ran cold

I’d still hold on

Black thorn rose,

I bled,I broke

I still won’t fold

Black thorn rose

No Apologies for whom the bell tolls

You cut me down

I still grow cold

There’s a scar on me

Where the truth went through

There’s a line in the dust

I won’t cross for you

I’m a hard old soul

With a soft core glow

Still reaching up

Through the undertow

No Apologies

I grew blackened an thorned

In a broke-down soul

I learned to hold

What the grave tried to claim

What the rain tried to drown,who'll stop the rain

no apologies

Let 'em call me cursed

Let 'em call me rough

I was built from every fall

An that's more than enough

When the night comes in

I don't run king of kings I stay

No Apologies,I was made by the hurt

I won't fade away,purple rain

No Apologies

You don't know you love her until you let her go

I learned to hold

What the grave tried to claim

What the rain tried to drown,only miss the road when you're missin home, an you let her go, with no apologies