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[00:01.00]What I Almost Was
[00:02.00]Eric Church
[00:03.00]Sinners Like Me
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[00:20.00]It was my senior year
[00:22.00]I just turned eighteen
[00:24.00]I was a friday night hero, with division one dreams
[00:29.00]I had an offer on the table
[00:31.00]A four year ride
[00:33.00]'Til that fourth and two and twenty four dive
[00:37.00]I left on a stretcher, wound up on a crutch
[00:42.00]Walked on that next summer
[00:44.00]Wound up getting cut
[00:46.00]Flipped off that coach, left that school in the dust
[00:50.00]For letting my dreams go bust
[00:54.00]But I thank God I ain't what I almost was
[01:07.00]Yea, I moved on back home
[01:09.00]And came awful close to being some son-in-law to some CEO
[01:15.00]Coulda been a corner office, country club, suit and tie man
[01:20.00]Answerin' to no one, but her and him
[01:24.00]I ran out on his money, ran out on her love
[01:28.00]At four in the morning I loaded my truck
[01:33.00]I left my home town in a big cloud of dust
[01:37.00]I just had to follow my gut
[01:40.00]And I thank God I ain't what I almost was
[02:05.00]In guitar town I bought this old Epiphone
[02:13.00]Started stringin' chords and words into songs
[02:22.00]I've been putting in time on Sixteenth Avenue
[02:27.00]Pouring out my heart for tips on a stool
[02:30.00]I ain't making a killing, but then theres those nights
[02:35.00]When the song comes together and hits them just right
[02:39.00]The crowds on their feet cause they can't get enough
[02:44.00]Of this music I make and I love
[02:48.00]And I thank God I ain't, yea I thank God I ain't,
[03:01.00]Yea I thank God I ain't, what I almost was