Invincible

Back when I was fifteen An old man told me 'bout the time he did back in '83 And I thought he was crazy Until he pulled his shirt back and showed the scars under his sleeves And then he told me About the time in Vietnam when they were hiding in the trees And I thought it was crazy The way he told his story the way he did with such clarity He said "Boy, it's a wonder I ain't dead I guess there's things I gotta do that's lying up ahead." I thought he was bulletproof The way he said those things to me, he told me the whole truth Wasn't nothing a lie, convinced that I'd Met a man of steel the way it made me feel It was like a miracle He made it through with everything to lose I thought that he was invincible Back when I was sixteen I got my license and my mama told me don't be crazy But man, if y'all know me I went and found a girl and we were running high through the Joshua trees And boy it came easy We would sit out on my tailgate and enjoy the night time breeze And when her time came to leave I would hold her tight and not let her go for what felt like weeks We might have gone just a little bit too far But I had the lock and she had the keys to my ever loving heart I thought I was bulletproof The way she said those things to me felt like the whole truth Wasn't nothing a lie, convinced that I Was a man of steel, the way it made me feel It was like a miracle I made it through with everything to lose I thought that I was invincible But now I'm just a memory And I've been in tailspins and struggles and it's a mystery How it didn't break me 'Cause through the wrecks and heartaches and sad goodbyes I've been lucky Oh, but I found out the hard way in a ditch When I saw my life flash before my eyes I knew I'd just missed Found out I wasn't bulletproof The way those things they happened to me became the whole truth Ain't nothing a lie, now I know that I'm Not a man of steel the way it made me feel It must have been a miracle I made it through with everything to lose Oh even though I thought that I Oh even though I thought that I Was invincible