I Wasn't Always Like This

southern rock, rock, rock guitar

[Verse]
Some things just get better with time
Rememberin' when I was young and dumb and I just didn't realize
That I can't please 'em all and I shouldn't even try
'Cause I can do anything but be everything all of the time

[Verse]
But something in me just snapped
I finally got tired of carryin' 'em on my back
But one day
I picked one hell of a fight
And I sat my boys down and I told 'em all about how

[Chorus]
I wasn't always like this
All my life
I was pleasin'
I was stressin'
I was tryin' to
I had to make a change
Damn right
I did
And that's why
I wasn't always like this
And if you hate it
I don't really give a shit
I wasn't anything like THIS
No
I wasn't always like THIS

[Verse]
No one judges you if you say you're tryin'
But here's a little secret
They're gonna judge you anyway
There's nobody above you who has any power
That's why I created a "they" I can't actually name

[Verse]
And no greater love
Hath a man for his neighbor
That doesn't involve an open container
So to the boys
I dedicate this
I wasn't always like this

[Chorus]
All my life
I was pleasin'
I was stressin'
I was tryin' to
I had to make a change
Damn right
I did
And that's why
I wasn't always like this
And if you hate it
I don't really give a shit
I wasn't anything like THIS
No
I wasn't always like THIS