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 There was a man I used to pass 
On my way into town 
He was covered in dirt like the world had beat him down 
I often wondered how he ended up like that 
So one day driving home 
I pulled over to ask 
I said, 'man, where'd it all go wrong?' 
He said, 'son, do you really wanna know?' 
'My daddy left for another woman 
Moved off to l.a. 
My mama fought hard against that cancer 
She died when I was eight 
I finished school, my country shipped me off to war 
When I came home, my whole world didn't love me anymore'. 
'It's hard to see all that when you're driving by 
So I just write down, 'jesus saves' 
'cause there ain't no way I could fit that on a sign 
I can't fit that on a sign'. 
I took him to a diner 
I bought him a cup of coffee 
He asked me 
If he could bum a couple dollars off me 
He told me his story, I told mine 
He said thanks 'cause most folks around here 
Would never take the time. 
He said 
'I lost my job down at the mill 
When that factory closed 
Army stopped sending me them checks 
The bank took everything I own 
Hitchhiked my way up to chicago 
The nights were too damn cold 
I hopped a train headed west 
'cause I had nowhere else to go'. 
'It's hard to see all that driving by 
So I just write down, 'jesus saves' 
'cause there ain't no way I could fit that on a sign 
There ain't no way to fit that on a sign'. 
'I probably would've wrote down a little more 
If I could've found a bigger piece of cardboard'. 
'My brother walter was my hero 
But he was bad to drink 
One night, he laid his harley down 
Near that ohio riverbank 
Me and my ex-wife tried for kids when we were dating 
Hell, we even had baby names picked out 
But little walter didn't make it. 
'It's hard to see all that driving by 
So I just write down, 'jesus saves' 
'cause there ain't no way I could fit that on a sign 
I can't fit all that on a sign'. 
 
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