Uh, the next day I was back in Los Angeles I was telling that same story to someone
And they said, “Hey, man, I go to these meetings”
And so then I went to, uh, some AA meetings and for the first time in my life
I sat down a listened to people tell stories which were my favorite thing to hear my whole life
I'd been loving stories, man
I love your story
You know, whatever your story is, I love it, man
Because all my life when I was young I just wanted to have a different story
I wanted a different story

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I love your story
You know, whatever your story is, I love it, man
Because all my life I just wanted a different story
I wanted a different story
I love your story
You know, whatever your story is, I love it, man
Because all my life I just wanted a different story
I wanted a different story

Whether I had to tell it
Or try and live yours
Whether I had to get emancipated and come live at your house, or this house or that house
I just wanted a different story, man
I wanted to be
I wanted to be in a family and I wanted to feel loved, you know
You know, I just really, I mean, I think and I didn't even know it I didn't know how much I wanted to, uh
How much I wanted to be loved and I just didn't even know (sigh)
And once I got into these rooms, I could
You had to sit there, you had to be quiet and you had to hear other people
And people started talking and telling their stories and for the first time in my life
They were telling emotional, like
Tales of, that were exciting and fucking dope and, like, deep and real and I connected with that, I loved it
[Chorus]
I love your story
You know, whatever your story is, I love it, man
Because all my life I just wanted a different story
I wanted a different story
I love your story
You know, whatever your story is, I love it, man
Because all my life I just wanted a different story
I wanted a different story

I loved it in that
I just kept going
I just kept going
Next thing you know, I had a couple nights in a row or couple weeks in a row or months in a row, where I was spending time with other people and I was meeting people
And suddenly, Los Angeles became like, this place that I'd always kinda hated and judged It became a little bit
I still don't like that place, people are outta their fucking minds out there
Bunch of disconnected kooks judging most of the rest of America
But it also made me
It gave me a place to kind of It just gave me friends, it gave me people and because I knew those people had struggles
I knew that they'd felt some of the same ways that I felt inside I couldn't judge those people, you know
Even though sometimes I wanted to

[Chorus]
I love your story
You know, whatever your story is, I love it, man
Because all my life I just wanted a different story
I wanted a different story
I love your story
You know, whatever your story is, I love it, man
Because all my life I just wanted a different story
I wanted a different story
(And all my life)