His mama ran off when he was just a kid

So he never really knew her at all

Just a picture of a girl in a sad blue dress

Hangin' beside a cross on the wall

His daddy used to drive those eighteen wheelers

Now he drives the bottle deep into the night

He was always sayin', "Son, you're just no good

You'll never do anything right"

He never got enough love in all his life

He wasn't brought up right, he never got enough love

The screams and the bruises and the broken bottles

These were things he understood

From busted chairs to a broken heart

He got away as soon as he could

When he was just eighteen he got his very own gun

He just shot a kid near a liquor store one night

He was all mixed up, he never understood why

He was only lookin' to prove his daddy right

He never got enough love in all his life

He wasn't brought up right, he never got enough love

He never got enough love in all his life

He wasn't brought up right, he never got enough love