Eli Young Band - Raised Right

〈Verse 1〉
2 a.m., mama walking in
Tossing keys and tips, counting ones and tens
Smell like coffee and cigarettes
How could I forget?
How'd she say, "Just one hug then it’s back to bed"
Better not get back up again, yeah

〈Verse 2〉
7 a.m. was a diesel truck
Didn't always run, but Daddy fired it up
That rattle backing out of a gravel drive
Was watching him leave most all my life
But didn't know we were living check-to-check
Same way they been living since the day they met
Wasn’t easy, but I know

〈Chorus〉
We were raised right
We wеre hard times in a broke town
Wе were heads high
We were wild souls, we were lost prayers
We were "don't know how, but we'll get there"
Took some wrong turns, but we all turned out okay
We were raised right
See Eli Young Band LiveGet tickets as low as $51〈Verse 3〉
Eyes on the ball, butts in the pew
Never go to bed without "I love you"
Paper thin walls, Mom and Daddy fought
It was always, "Why you're spending more than we got?"
But no one looked at Mama like Daddy did
We were latchkey kids, but we were always taken care of
'Cause all they cared was

〈Chorus〉
We were raised right
We were hard times in a broke town
We were heads high
We were wild souls, we were lost prayers
We were "don't know how, but we'll get there"
Took some wrong turns, but we all turned out okay
We were raised right (Oh, oh)

〈Post-Chorus〉
(Oh, oh)
We were raised right
(Oh, oh)

〈Bridge〉
Real life gets a little too real sometimes
We all burn and just crash sometimes
Can't help but look back sometimes
To think if they can make it, so can we
〈Chorus〉
We were raised right
We were hard times in a broke town
We were heads high
We were wild souls, we were lost prayers
We were "don’t know how, but we’ll get there"
Took some wrong turns, but we all turned out okay
We were raised right (We were raised right)
We were hard times (We were hard times)
We were wild souls, we were lost prayers
We were "don't know how, but we’ll get there"
Took some wrong turns, but we all turned out okay
We were raised right (Oh, oh)

〈Post-Chorus〉
Yeah, we were raised right (Oh, oh)
We were raised right (Oh, oh)
Yeah, we were raised right (Oh, oh)

〈Outro〉
(Oh, oh)
(Oh, oh)

Eli Young Band is an American country music band composed of members who met while students at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas: Mike Eli (lead vocals, guitar), James Young (guitar), Jon Jones (bass guitar), and Chris Thompson (drums). They released their self-titled debut album in 2002, followed by the Carnival records release Level in 2005. Their third album, Jet Black & Jealous", was released in 2008 by Universal South Records. A second major-label album, Life at Best", was released in 2011 by Republic Nashville, with 10,000 Towns following in early 2014. The band has charted eight times on the Billboard country charts, with four of their singles having reached number 1: “Crazy Girl”, which was the top country song of 2011 according to Billboard Year-End, along with “Even If It Breaks Your Heart”, “Drunk Last Night”, and “Love Ain’t”.