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[Verse 1]
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Well, his Daddy sat him down,  when he was just a kid
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Said listen to me loud my son to how it is
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Your mom and me we tried,     we just can't get along
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I know you've heard her cry but son it ain't your fault
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Well, I ain't gonna be around    so you'll have to take the reins
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Boy, I know you're scared right now but you're gonna do great

[Chorus]
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Sometimes the ride    don't go as you planned
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No matter how hard you try,    it's outta your hands
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And sometimes life shows up long before you want it to
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And sometimes a boy's gotta do what a man's gotta do

[Verse 2]
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Well, the years went flyin' by      just like his muscle car
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And Katie asked him for a ride and in that backseat they took it too far
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Barely seventeen,    Katie's three weeks late
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So he went and got a job told his Mom graduation will have to wait

[Chorus]
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Sometimes the ride    don't go as you planned
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No matter how hard you try,    it's outta your hands
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And sometimes life shows up long before you want it to
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And sometimes a boy's gotta do what a man's gotta do

[Bridge]
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Now he still can't buy a drink,    but he bought a diamond for her hand
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He's shippin' off in fourteen days     to a foreign land

[Chorus]
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I guess sometimes the ride    don't go as you planned
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No matter how hard you try,    it's outta your hands
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And sometimes life shows up long before you want it to
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And sometimes a boy's gotta do what a man's gotta do