[Verse 1]

2 a.m., mama walking in

Tossing keys and tips, counting ones and tens

Smell like coffee and cigarettes

How could I forget?

How'd she say, "Just one hug then it’s back to bed"

Better not get back up again, yeah

[Verse 2]

7 a.m. was a diesel truck

Didn't always run, but Daddy fired it up

That rattle backing out of a gravel drive

Was watching him leave most all my life

But didn't know we were living check-to-check

Same way they been living since the day they met

Wasn’t easy, but I know

[Chorus]

We were raised right

We wеre hard times in a broke town

Wе were heads high

We were wild souls, we were lost prayers

We were "don't know how, but we'll get there"

Took some wrong turns, but we all turned out okay

We were raised right

[Verse 3]

Eyes on the ball, butts in the pew

Never go to bed without "I love you"

Paper thin walls, Mom and Daddy fought

It was always, "Why you're spending more than we got?"

But no one looked at Mama like Daddy did

We were latchkey kids, but we were always taken care of

'Cause all they cared was

[Chorus]

We were raised right

We were hard times in a broke town

We were heads high

We were wild souls, we were lost prayers

We were "don't know how, but we'll get there"

Took some wrong turns, but we all turned out okay

We were raised right (Oh, oh)

[Post-Chorus]

(Oh, oh)

We were raised right

(Oh, oh)

[Bridge]

Real life gets a little too real sometimes

We all burn and just crash sometimes

Can't help but look back sometimes

To think if they can make it, so can we

[Chorus]

We were raised right

We were hard times in a broke town

We were heads high

We were wild souls, we were lost prayers

We were "don’t know how, but we’ll get there"

Took some wrong turns, but we all turned out okay

We were raised right (We were raised right)

We were hard times (We were hard times)

We were wild souls, we were lost prayers

We were "don't know how, but we’ll get there"

Took some wrong turns, but we all turned out okay

We were raised right (Oh, oh)

[Post-Chorus]

Yeah, we were raised right (Oh, oh)

We were raised right (Oh, oh)

Yeah, we were raised right (Oh, oh)

[Outro]

(Oh, oh)

(Oh, oh)