[Verse 1]
Scrolling back through twenty pages of yesterdays
The neighborhoods and the young folks it was left to raise
Many lives on the rise had met their demise
Hard to recognize the signs, it was such a disguise
It all looked so clean and beautifully groomed
While in fact, all our lives were brutally doomed
No mask, whiskey shots with no flask
Broken homes like broken bones with no cast
Lives torn completely apart, then lives gone
By storm from guns pulled and knives drawn
All in pursuit of achievable highs
Reached all new lows so believe our lies
Deceiving all our family and friends
It starts like a whirlwind but calmly it ends
On the bathroom floor in the back of a store
You started off asking for more, damn…

[Chorus]
You can’t take away my history
It made me who I am
I give thanks for my family
And for those who chose to love me
Even when they didn’t understand

[Verse 2]
Intervention before the tension is extra high
Your name came off a list of who’s next to die
Chose life, what a great choice and the right move!
Not a waste is a strong case that you might prove
When nobody else believed, your family will
Your horror stories got told like Amityville
But you can put that in your rear view
Hold life in front of you, in a clear view
You can see what you want to be, and you’re aiming for it
Your former friends were skeptical ‘til they came and saw it
You’re on a better path than your previous
All you gave to misbehave with the devious
You on the road to recovery now
Yeah, like a whole new discovery wow
Yeah, it’s called livin’ lovin’
What you have been given
Gods gift to this new decision, made it
[Chorus]
You can’t take away my history
It made me who I am
I give thanks for my family
And for those who chose to love me
Even when they didn’t understand