What She Had To歌词

作词 : Edwards, Parris
Album:Mountains

I was three years old
sitting in the seat of a Greyhound bus
My brother and me,
Mama's tears falling like a Carolina rain

Cause she pulled out a gun the night before
Said he ain't gonna drink and hit me no more
She pulled the trigger on my father
in a moment's rain

Thank God that gun wasn't loaded

Didn't know where to go
or how she'd survive
Didn't care, anywhere

but there that night

Now she held her babies tight

And we rode through the cold of the midnight blue
She was scared, she was broke
But all she knew was she was gonna do
What she had to

She got her a job in a trailer out west
It wasn't much but she was doing her best
Putting food on the table for her family

But then one day I came home from school
My Mama was crying alone in her room
She said, I lost my job
and we're gonna lose the trailer too

And she got that volkswagon loaded

Didn't know where to go
or how she'd survive
Didn't care, anywhere
but there that night

She held her babies tight

And we rode through the cold of the midnight blue
She was scared, she was broke
But all she knew was she was gonna do

What she had to

Whenever things go wrong in my life
I just think of her,
what it took that night

To get on that bus in a Carolina rain

Didn't know where to go
or how she'd survive
Didn't care, anywhere
but there that night
She held her babies tight
held her babies

And we rode through the cold of the midnight blue
She was scared, she was broke
But all she knew was she was gonna do

What she had to

What she had to she had

Yeah, yeah, ooooh,

what she had to

What she had to