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I started out as a light in my father's eye at a Texaco
My mama was working overnights on Sam Wilson Road
She was a madcap teenage runaway- a year past graduation
She was new in town
and he was burning down the place with infatuation

She fired red-hot buckshot distress calls across the parking lot
A rebel reeling from the feeling of rooting around for a little repose
They chased sunrise with moonshine
after tussling and muttering secrets all night
I started out as a light in Carolina

I started out as a light in my mother's eye
many years ago
in the numbing fires of live wires loose in foster homes
From my grand-dad's grip to my mothers lip,
there's an ancestral impression
and there are bullet sounds in the Tennessee ground
from things I forgot to mention

She fired red-hot buckshot distress calls across the parking lot
A rebel reeling from the feeling of rooting around for a little repose
They chased sunrise with moonshine
after tussling and muttering secrets all night
I started out as a light in Carolina

From the birth canal to the whistle of emergency sirens,
You've got a lot of skins to wear as you try to figure out who you are
and it ain't easy
and it ain't fair
You might change your friends
and dye your hair from time to time
but you're gonna be fine

It don't matter what people say-
don't expect them to undersand
Ain't nobody someone else's mistake;
life is not always the things you plan.

You may veer left when you meant to steer right
but you're doing alright

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from Forgotten Songs & American Dreams, released May 3, 2019

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Adeem is a seventh-generation Carolinian, a makeshift poet, singer-songwriter, storyteller, and blue-collar Artist.

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