Well that steel was cold and hard

When they slapped them on my wrist

Seventeen headed straight to jail drunk on half a fifth

Daddy drove down to the jailhouse

Said I ain't gonna bail you out

Between these steel bars and mama's broken heart

Here's something you can think about

He said a many a man by his own two hands

Bring a hurting on himself

Got too much pride to lift his eyes up

To heaven for a little help

Now everybody needs forgiveness

Cause even a good man fails

The Good Lord's building mansions

The devil's just driving nails

I went to my best friend's funeral

He left a wife and two young kids

I guess his reasons for dying

Got bigger than his reason to live

That preacher's voice faded in the rain

And tears that day

Until all I heard were my daddy's words

As we gathered round to pray

He said a many a man by his own two hands

Bring a hurting on himself

Got too much pride to lift his eyes up

To heaven for a little help

Now everybody needs forgiveness

Cause even a good man fails

The Good Lord's building mansions

The devil's just driving nails

Back roads Sunday morning

I was hit with Amazing Grace

I heard a story about a carpenter

And tear rolled down my face

I saw that cross and God's only son with

His hands nailed to the wood

And I thought of the years that brought me

Here and I finally understood

He went a many a man by his own two hands

Bring a hurting on himself

The greatest gift that a man

Can give is dying for someone else

Now everybody needs forgiveness

Cause even a good man fails

The Good Lord's building mansions

The devil's just driving nails

The Good Lord's building mansions

The devil's just driving nails