Jeffery Steele - Twenty Years Ago

20 years ago


Jeffrey Steele





I was at that smart ass time of my life


I’d pick a fight just to pick a fight


He said black I said white


If he took one side I took the other side


Dinner table we sat around was 


More like a battleground


Where I lost more times than I won


Wouldn’t learn til later on


He was always preachin about his past


I just kept screamin’ come on dad





That was 20 years ago you don’t know me at all


Trying to talk to you is like talking to a wall


Yea you gave me my life but its my life to live


And maybe I don’t wanna live it like you did


20 years ago





He was built from blue collar sweat and blood


Square jaw and a crew cut a purple heart a Viet vet


And he’d tell you every chance he’d get


Always runnin’ down my rock & roll


My friends, my hair, and my clothes


Til it all got out of control


And one night it finally came to blows


That was just enough to get me gone


I couldn’t wait to prove him wrong





20 years ago I struck out on my own


He couldn’t tell me nothin’


I didn’t already know


Yea I was on my way


So what the hell did I care


With my old man and his gray hair


Thought about the road I chose


20 years ago





(spoken)


I left as fast as the leaves fell that autum I never looked back and I never once called him


But every time I talked to moma  I wondered if he was there


Or if he even cared I figured I walked out on him and the course of our love


Had run moma said no no you listen to me son he’s a stubborn man and he won’t give in


He believes what he believes and you’re just like him And I could tell by her voice there was something wrong she broke down


and said he ain’t got long So I caught the next plane home thought about all the years gone And how my pride had let so much


time go by ran up those stairs and I stood by his bed and cried





20 years ago I thought I knew it all


but tryin to talk to me is like talking to a wall


Yea thought I was a man but actin’ like I did


But all I want right now is just to be your kid


And just before my dad gave up the ghost 


He took my hand and said son let it go


That was 20 years ago


20 years ago






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