Zac Brown Band - Smoke Rise lyrics

rate me

she was something in her formative years

she'd hide her accent, it would reappear

when she would brag on what daddy bought last night

only pretty girls were in that crowd

to tease a handful of poor kids out loud

and even then I knew it wasn't right

Smoke Rise you were never kind

good news I left you all behind

there's some who hoped that it would last

Smoke Rise I'm glad you're in my past

most of the kids were better than me

or at least they thought so and it was plain to see

the children are cruel and I didn't have a fighting chance

I wasn't a jock

I wasn't a brain

we weren't well off

and momma couldn't explain

why noone would take a poor boy to the dance

Smoke Rise you were never kind

good news I left you all behind

there's some who hoped that it would last

Smoke Rise I'm glad you're in my past

Smoke Rise you were never kind

good news I left you all behind

there's some who hoped that it would last

Smoke Rise I'm glad you're in my past

these old rich kids find it hard to embrance

when they bus black kids from all over the place

the county tried to prove their schools were all the same

ol' Jim Crow tried to integrate

But in the south it's hard to relate

when grandpa used the "N"-word with no shame

Smoke Rise you were never kind

good news I left you all behind

there's some who hoped that it would last

Smoke Rise I'm glad you're in my past