Smoke Rise Lyrics - You Get What You Give - Zac Brown Band

she was something in her formative years 

she'd hide her accent, it would reappear 

when she would brag on what daddy bought last night 

only pretty girls were in that crowd 

to tease a handful of poor kids out loud 

and even then I knew it wasn't right 

Smoke Rise you were never kind 

good news I left you all behind 

there's some who hoped that it would last 

Smoke Rise I'm glad you're in my past 

most of the kids were better than me 

or at least they thought so and it was plain to see 

the children are cruel and I didn't have a fighting chance 

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I wasn't a jock 

I wasn't a brain 

we weren't well off 

and momma couldn't explain 

why noone would take a poor boy to the dance 

Smoke Rise you were never kind 

good news I left you all behind 

there's some who hoped that it would last 

Smoke Rise I'm glad you're in my past 

Smoke Rise you were never kind 

good news I left you all behind 

there's some who hoped that it would last 

Smoke Rise I'm glad you're in my past 

these old rich kids find it hard to embrance 

when they bus black kids from all over the place 

the county tried to prove their schools were all the same 

ol' Jim Crow tried to integrate 

But in the south it's hard to relate 

when grandpa used the "N"-word with no shame 

Smoke Rise you were never kind 

good news I left you all behind 

there's some who hoped that it would last 

Smoke Rise I'm glad you're in my past