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TIM McGRAW lyrics : "You Had To Be There"

He sat down picked up the phone and said boy i'm your old man.
He touched the glass between the two as if to shake his hand
The boy he didn't budge not even so much as a blink

The man said oh come on better late than never don't ya think.

He said i read it in the paper can't believe you're 21

I can't believe some son of mine could do the things i hear you've done.
He went on like some big hero who flew in to save the day
And the boy said if your here to steer me right man its too late


You had to be there and i'm talkin from from day one.
Thats the only time a man should talk through glass to his new son

And you'd have to go back and teach me how when i was nine
Cause my mama couldn't throw a ball even if she had the time.
I should have been learning how to fish instead of learning how to smoke.

I bet if you'd of whoopped my tail i'd never thought it was a joke
He said sometimes the will for doing wrong is way too strong for any mama's prayers
You had to be there.


The man said boy i'm sorry that you hate me like you do
The boy said dry it up man we ain't making this about you.

Its about a teenage girl against the world who was left there high and dry
About a kid who might have stood a whole lot better shot at life but
You had to be there

And i'm talking from day one

Thats the only time a man should talk through glass to his new son

You'd have to go back and teach me how when i was nine
Cause my mama couldn't throw a ball even if she had the time.
I should have been learning how to fish instead of learning how to smoke

I bet if you'd of whooped my tail i'd never thought it was a joke
Sometimes the will for doing wrong is way too strong for any mama's prayer
You had to be there.


Before the boy hung up the phone he said they say me i'm out of time
And it hit the man right there and then

My god son so am i

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