Matt & Toby - The Last One lyrics

You were born in Missouri, to a mother all alone Your daddy was out on the road again And it stayed like that till the age of five, when your father died But you never could find anger, he was the traveling kind Sometimes she would tell you stories As she laid you down to sleep About how he had played the biggest stage The years went by and you grew up strong But there was something you just couldn't find You turned eighteen, and your momma gently wept And told you the last words that he said Son, take your horses and run And you will know this country like the back of your hand The names will escape you but the faces never will This one life is yours and yours alone Thanksgiving came and pa**ed Like rain on southern afternoon You were living like you never had before And a friend of yours you'd known in school Called you up to have a drink He said, there's someone that I think you should meet You laughed it off and claimed circumstance Would keep you from a bride The truth was those thoughts led your bones to shake But he wouldn't accept a coward's words And the plans were made that night Six months later she became your wife Nine months later your little girl cried for the first time Son, take your horses and run And you will know this country like the back of your hand The names will escape you but the faces never will This one life is yours and yours alone And I loved your mother, your sister and your brother They made me a man that could be loved And it was Jesus there to save me From the life that I got wrong And I'm so glad I never walked alone One day you realized you were the same age as me When I pa**ed away You called mother and told her she was loved That night after you read Brown Bear And sang your child to sleep You thanked the good Lord for family That we aren't together but one day we would be