"Kids Like Me" lyrics

Kids like me, we were sweating in the pews
Praying daddy had money when the light bill was due
But kids like me had to raise ourselves
'Cause Mama was a little too busy out raising hell

Kids like me, we scraped by with scraped-up knees
Cussed the roots of our family tree
We were twelve years old
Going on twenty three

So what we grew up too fast?
So what there ain't no going back?
It is what it is, and that's just that
I wouldn't change it, no, I wouldn't change it
'Cause that tough love's like gasoline
Have to kick down doors if we don't have a key
No, we know how to spray paint brown grass green
All of us kids who didn't get to be kids like me

Well, kids like me went to work 'fore we went to class
Spent study hall sleeping off a swing shift, busting our ass

Kids like me could complain, but we won't make you listen
Too busy living to sit around wishing
We were anyone else
Anywhere else

So what we grew up too fast?
So what there ain't no going back?
It is what it is, and that's just that
I wouldn't change it, no, I wouldn't change it
'Cause that tough love's like gasoline
Have to kick down doors if we don't have a key
No, we know how to spray paint brown grass green
All of us kids who didn't get to be kids like me

So what we grew up too fast?
So what there ain't no going back?
It is what it is, and that's just that
I wouldn't change it, no, I wouldn't change it
'Cause that tough love's like gasoline
Have to kick down doors if we don't have a key
No, we know how to spray paint brown grass green
All of us kids who didn't get to be kids like me

Like me