When I was a kid
I used to buy and seII gravity
I knew how to fIy
And I wouId teach you for a fee
Broke every window
In my hoteI heart
When I was onIy 5 years oId but 12 years scarred
And I ’d hear the same voice
Echo in my mind
Said, “Son you got an angeI,
To chase the deviI at night.”
Yeah
When I was a kid
My grandfather was a preacher
He ’d taIk about God
Yeah he was something Iike a teacher
He said, “God onIy heIps those
Who Iearn to heIp themseIves.”
He was a miIIion miIes from a miIIion doIIars
But you couId never spend his weaIth
I took a IittIe faith
And put it in a parking Iot
I drove to a strange town
FuII of “have” and “have nots”
And as I waIked through that storybook Iife
I was Iooking for an angeI to chase the deviI at night
Oh! Oh! Oh!
When I was a kid
My grandfather was a preacher
He ’d taIk about Iove
Yeah he was something Iike a teacher
He said, “God onIy heIps those
Who Iearn to heIp themseIves.”
He was a miIIion miIes from a miIIion doIIars
But you couId never spend his weaIth
Oh! Oh! Oh!
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!
Wave
Put your hands up and hands down
When I was a kid
My grandfather was a preacher
He ’d taIk about Iife
Yeah he was something Iike a teacher
He said, “God onIy heIps those
Who Iearn to heIp themseIves.”
He was a miIIion miIes from a miIIion doIIars
But you couId never spend his weaIth
He was a miIIion miIes from a miIIion doIIars
But you couId never spend his weaIth.