You sat as still as one at the dinner table With nothing to say after grace You were hard as one ´cause you had to be Yeah, the oldest ones turn out that way And if I had me one for every time you let me down
I´d build a wall, I guess I did Yeah, you taught me all about Which ones sank and which ones skipped
But there´s throwin´ ones and rollin´ ones And gettin´ us to open up was like gettin´ blood from one The steppin´ kind, the steady kind The "Hey, I´ve got your back ones" you can stand behind I´m just now findin´ out now that you´re gone We were cut from the same stone
I sway like you when I get nervous I´m shy like you, but most folks couldn´t tell I get the same shade of red as you did when I´m angry I´m red right now ´cause I´m mad as hell
At the throwin´ ones, the rollin´ ones That gettin´ us to open up was like gettin´ blood from one The steppin´ kind, the steady kind The "Hey, I´ve got your back ones" you can stand behind I´m just now findin´ out now that you´re gone We were cut from the same stone
Yeah, there´s a lot of things that should be written in one But your name ain´t one of ´em So I carry one And it´s a heavy one
I´m just now findin´ out now that you´re gone We were cut from the same stone