Tuff Kid Lyrics - These Four Walls - Shawn Colvin

I was a tuff kid, yeah, I was a tuff kid 

It took a lot to get me on my knees 

And I had a hard time, yeah, I had a hard time 

Just ask somebody if you don't believe me 

And my mama had me but she didn't get me 

I guess I broke her at the age of five 

And my daddy hit me but he couldn't quit me 

We showed each other how to feel alive 

So say, hey everybody at the old schoolyard 

Took it all the way and we took it hard 

Tell the kind of things that make you feel alright 

Said the kind of things that keep you up at night 

It was a small town but it didn't fit me 

There wasn't anything I could do 

And so I had my guitar and I took it with me 

Oh, just like every single kid I knew 

We say, hey everybody at the old schoolyard 

Took it all the way and we took it hard 

Did the kind of things that make you feel alright 

Said the kind of things that keep you up at night 

Not last night but the night before the 

Twenty four hours getting to my door 

They don't fall far and they don't fall hard 

And they're knocking back till the 4th of July 

They say, hey everybody at the old schoolyard 

Took it all the way and we took it hard 

Did the kind of things that make you feel alright 

Said the kind of things that keep you up at night 

Hey everybody at the old schoolyard 

Took it all the way and we took it hard 

Did the kind of things that make you feel alright 

Said the kind of things that keep you up at night