"Raised Right" lyrics

2 AM. Mamma walking in
Tossing key and tips
Counting ones and tens
Smell like coffee and cigarettes
How could I forget?

Hoe'd she say, "Just one hug then it's back to bed."
Better not get back up again

7 AM. Was a diesel truck
Didn't know always run but daddy fired it up
That rattle backing out of a gravel drive
I was watching him leave most all my life
But didn't know we were living check-to-check
Same way they been living since the day they met

It wasn't easy, but I know

We were raised right
We were hard times in a broke town
We were heads high
We were wild souls
We were lost prayers
We were "Don't know how, but we'll get there."
Took some wrong turns but we all turned out okay
We were raised right

Eyes on the ball
Butts in the pew
Never go to bed without "I love you"
Paper-thin walls mom and daddy fought
It was always "Why you're spending more than we got?"
But no one looked at mamma like daddy did
We were latchkey kids
But we were always taken care of
'Cause all they cared was

We were raised right
We were hard times in a broke town
We were heads high
We were wild souls
We were lost prayers
We were "Don't know how, but we'll get there."
Took some wrong turns but we all turned out okay
We were raised right

Real life gets a little too real sometimes
We all burn and just crash sometimes
Can't help but look back sometimes
To think "If they can make it, so can we."

We were raised right
We were hard times in a broke town
We were heads high
We were wild souls
We were lost prayers
We were "Don't know how, but we'll get there."
Took some wrong turns but we all turned out okay
We were raised right

We were hard times
We were wild souls
We were lost prayers
We were "Don't know how, but we'll get there."
Took some wrong turns but we all turned out okay
We were raised right

We were raised right
We were raised right
We were raised right