I Came Here To Live-Trace Adkins

[ti:I Came Here To Live] [ar:Trace Adkins] [al:Dangerous Man] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Came Here To Live - Trace Adkins [00:12.06]I grew up in a town where tough was a cigarette [00:15.30] [00:17.80]And a souped up car on a county road [00:20.43] [00:23.54]Nothin' much to do back then [00:25.46]So we'd make bets [00:27.28] [00:29.41]On how much drink a guy could hold [00:31.82] [00:32.61]And I held my own [00:34.50] [00:39.08]Learn to hold my own [00:40.92] [00:46.33]Daddy works some dead-end job at the concrete plant [00:49.98] [00:52.06]Mama taught the Sunday bible class [00:54.64] [00:57.82]For eighteen years I remember thinkin' [01:01.02] [01:03.94]There was more to life than that [01:05.73] [01:06.36]So I ran the streets to beat the Devil [01:08.85] [01:11.94]Goin' just as fast as I could fly [01:14.86] [01:18.21]'Cause I came here to live [01:20.13] [01:23.83]I didn't come here to die [01:25.47] [01:31.78]Mama used to wait for me with the porch light on [01:35.15] [01:37.39]Worried about her little boy 'til I got home [01:40.84] [01:43.15]Daddy he'd say listen son [01:45.07] [01:45.87]But back then there wasn't much [01:47.78] [01:49.46]That I didn't already know [01:51.78] [02:00.12]I reckon I was doing close to 80 [02:03.14] [02:05.77]When I felt the tire slip out from under me [02:08.66] [02:11.42]And I never set out lookin' for Jesus [02:14.73] [02:17.33]So I guess Jesus come lookin' for me [02:19.69] [02:20.76]And He found me upset down in a ditch [02:24.60] [02:25.95]Smokin' gas in my eyes [02:29.04] [02:31.95]And He said son you came here to live [02:34.66] [02:37.66]You didn't come here to die [02:39.42] [02:45.53]Sunday morning I got up and I went to church [02:49.13] [02:51.31]That summer I got a job and I went to work [02:54.50] [02:57.53]Met a girl in town put some money down [03:01.81]On a little house with a yard [03:05.80] [03:13.97]Our little boy was due in September [03:16.67] [03:19.88]But he came early in July [03:22.19] [03:25.51]For eighteen days all I remember [03:28.39] [03:31.71]Was settin' there at his side [03:34.12]Sayin' son open up your eyes [03:37.25] [03:40.27]Just open up your eyes [03:42.82] [03:45.88]'Cause you came here to live [03:48.17] [03:51.47]You didn't come here to die [03:53.20] [03:57.01]Son you came here to live