how to change a tire

I was eight years old

In a world smaller than my hands

The only pain I'd known

Was a concrete scrape back then

'Til my brother told

Me it's time to grow up and be a man

'Cause daddy build a home

With someone else, somewhere else in the state

Oh, I'm drivin' now

Ten and two without you, but I'm findin' out

I learned when it all gets low how to hold my head up higher

I learned how to change my fate despite the way I'm wired

But I'm on the side of the road and I'm all alone

With this flat ripped up reminder

That you left and let us down

And you never showed me how to change a tire

To change a tire

You never showed me how

To really love someone

Without the fear they're gonna let me go

How to stay, not run

But thanks to you, that's the love I know

I see you in my face, but I got my mother's heart

I love the light I made, but there's always a missin' part

I learned when it all gets low how to hold my head up higher

I learned how to change my fate despite the way I'm wired

But I'm on the side of the road and I'm all alone

With this flat ripped up reminder

That you left and let us down

And you never showed me how to change a tire

How to change a tire, oh

You never showed me how

You never showed me how, oh

You never showed me how

You never showed me how

You never showed me how

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