Everybody makes mistakes, and everybody needs second chances
acoustic
country
Story behind the song
I wanted a song that said it's okay to screw up. You just have to get back up and try again.
Lyrics
VERSE
My granddaddy knew me better than I knew myself
We’d been best friends since I was two years old
When he found me on the front porch sitting all alone
Somehow he just knew where I would go.
I was a kid, the one who blew the game that day
I was just the kid who always dropped the ball
I was just a kid with nothing left to lose, or so I thought
Until I heard the words of my grandpa…he said…
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I believe in second chances
In angels walking all around us
I believe God has a plan
To lift us when we fall
If you’re gonna fly
You’ve got to try
Despite the circumstances
’Cause everybody needs
Second chances
VERSE
She was 17 the year she left her world behind
She was running from the bruises and the pain
Now at 28 her demon had just passed away
And all she wanted was her life again.
As we sat there drinking coffee in the morning light
I just held her while she let her feelings go.
When she asked me if I thought that she could ever make it back
I said “I don’t know. But I believe…”
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BRIDGE
It doesn’t matter who you are
Or where your life has been
You deserve the chance to try again…
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