It Doesn't Mean A Thing-The Airborne Toxic Event

[00:02.116]I never knew my mother [00:03.889]I can't say it was so bad [00:06.506]She was still a girl of seventeen the night she met my dad [00:10.307]He was just six months out of chino [00:13.119]Trying his hardest to stay clean [00:15.074]And they'd sing and they'd sing and they'd sing [00:19.916]Like doves sleeping with broken wings [00:24.322]In a bed fit for a king [00:30.384]It didn't mean a thing [00:32.883]It was shot gun forest wedding [00:34.860]And they forgot to bring the gun [00:37.077]As they were busy counting promises [00:39.723]To the children not yet born [00:42.028]No one could afford the ride [00:43.623]Everyone hitched up with the 101 [00:46.339]And they'd sing and they'd sing and they'd sing [00:50.698]Like doves dancing with broken wings [00:55.162]With a view fit for a king [01:01.277]It didn't mean a thing [01:03.885]It was a loneliness [01:05.162]They would confess [01:06.138]Like the world had gone bad I guess [01:08.339]So they hold hands and look into the eyes of god [01:12.428]They'd say tell me why'd ya hide from us [01:14.750]Why'd ya fill the world with wickedness [01:17.123]Why'd ya spare us from the grace but not the rot [01:23.445]Now my dad says **** the details [01:25.687]Just keep your head down hard [01:27.825]Ya got to find yourself alone before you'll find the eyes of God [01:31.946]You make broke and scared and out of jail [01:34.671]Out the flesh of your own heartstrings [01:36.591]But you were born to be a peasant not a king [01:41.133]So just stop acting like your running from something [01:45.683]Ya gonna leave the way you came without a thing [01:49.949]With your heart tattooed and your mind tied to a string [01:54.455]You just sing and you sing and you sing [02:00.557]It doesn't mean a thing [02:04.307]