[ti:You Had To Be There]
[ar:Tim McGraw]
[al:Southern Voice]
[00:01.12]Tim McGraw - You Had To Be There
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[00:14.89]He sat down, picked up the phone
[00:17.75]Said Boy, I'm your old man.
[00:21.11]Touched the glass between the two,
[00:24.35]As if to shake his hand.
[00:27.70]The boy, he didn't budge
[00:29.89]Not even so much as a blink.
[00:33.88]The man said Oh come on,
[00:36.42]Better late than never, don't you think?
[00:39.87]He said I read it in the paper,
[00:43.25]Can't believe your twenty-one.
[00:46.95]Can't believe some son of mine
[00:49.60]Could do the things I hear you've done.
[00:53.34]Went on like some big hero
[00:56.30]Who flew in to save the day.
[00:59.96]The boy said If you're here
[01:02.89]To steer me right, man, it's too late.
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[01:05.98]You had to be there
[01:09.72]And I'm talkin from day one.
[01:13.07]That's the only time a man
[01:15.86]Should talk through glass to his new son
[01:19.40]And you'd have to go back
[01:22.27]And teach me how when I was nine
[01:25.97]Cause my momma couldn't throw a ball
[01:29.97]Even if she had the time.
[01:31.90]I shoulda been learnin' how to fish
[01:35.77]Instead of learnin' how to smoke.
[01:38.95]I bet if you'd whooped my tail
[01:41.68]I'd never thought it was a joke.
[01:45.05]He said sometimes the will for doin' wrong
[01:48.96]Is way too strong for any momma's prayers.
[01:58.08]You had to be there.
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[02:05.46]The man said Boy I'm sorry
[02:08.34]That you hate me like you do.
[02:11.58]The boy said Dry it up man.
[02:14.86]We ain't makin' this 'bout you.
[02:18.10]It's 'bout a teenage girl against the world
[02:21.58]Who was left there high and dry.
[02:24.65]'Bout a kid who might've stood
[02:27.42]A whole lot better shot at life.
[02:30.23]
[02:30.57]But you had to be there
[02:34.53]And I'm talkin from day one.
[02:37.77]That's the only time a man
[02:41.06]Should talk through glass to his new son
[02:43.75]And you'd have to go back
[02:46.98]And teach me how when I was nine
[02:50.66]Cause my momma couldn't throw a ball
[02:54.03]Even if she had the time.
[02:56.61]I shoulda been learnin' how to fish
[03:00.42]Instead of learnin' how to smoke.
[03:03.80]I bet if you'd whooped my tail
[03:06.66]I'd never thought it was a joke.
[03:09.81]He said sometimes the will for doin' wrong
[03:13.96]Is way too strong for any momma's prayers.
[03:22.76]You had to be there.
[03:26.81]
[03:30.18]The boy stood up, hung up the phone
[03:33.09]Said They say I'm out of time.
[03:36.64]It hit the man, right then and there
[03:39.75]My God, son, so am I.
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