Didn't Know - Abstract

Ridin' 'round town, we were young like hope

Small town life really all we’d known

Product of the mountains till the sun came home

Live inside the moments where the sun stayed low

Remember plotting in the parking lot

Plottin' just to spark a lot

Someone got a case or two and someone got the handlebar

Someone had a house to go where someone had a camping spot

We would set up shop around the fire pit below the rocks

Someone brought a table, someone brought the cups

Someone had the truck with the speakers that could bump

Some of us got lucky, and some of us got drunk

But all of us were lucky, we just didn’t know enough

We didn’t know we’d look back at days like this

We didn’t know the beauty in it that exists

We didn’t know

No, we didn’t know

How real life gets

We didn’t know we’d look back at days like this

We didn’t know the beauty in it that exists

We didn’t know

No, we didn’t know

How real life is

She was sittin' shotgun

Safety off, a ride or die

Talk is cheap inside a city where they let their money fly

Word get around quicker than the liquor on a Friday night

Parents heard about it 'fore you cut the gas to try to glide

Nights on the run, days on the slopes

A reality shared by all of those I hold close

Tried to get nostalgic while I’m cruising down the coast

Hard to do it in a place that’s so far from home, I know

Home, where the heart is

The place that taught me we are the artist

Even though home, it hit the hardest

Settin' goals on an ever-moving target

Journey to the top of the mountain peak

To see if outside the valley there was more for me

Funny, back then I couldn’t wait to leave

But it’s ingrained in my soul like a tread on sneaks

We didn’t know we’d look back at days like this

We didn’t know the beauty in it that exists

We didn’t know

No, we didn’t know

How real life gets

We didn’t know we’d look back at days like this

We didn’t know the beauty in it that exists

We didn’t know

No, we didn’t know

How real life is

Now whenever I go home, I never take it for granted

I take Yellowstone’s over islands made of granite

I take open roads over sitting in your traffic

I take Bob Dylan over most of modern classics

Me, I grew up in the woods;

never spent time in the hood

We all got perspectives—and this is mine, I go real as I should

Could take you to the places where the wildlife roam

But nowadays escape my wild life and usually go alone

I get reconnected, disconnected from my phone

No compliments or criticism clouding what I know

The river roarin' through the canyon influenced my flow

Watch trees rise on sunny sides, they taught me how to grow

We didn’t know we’d look back at days like this

We didn’t know the beauty in it that exists

We didn’t know

No, we didn’t know

How real life gets

We didn’t know we’d look back at days like this

We didn’t know the beauty in it that exists

We didn’t know

No, we didn’t know

How real life is