Ain't It just like me to disregard
Everything daddy told me about that car
It's too much too fast
Back your lead foot off of that gas
Or you're gonna get hurt
Just enough rain and just enough curve
Not enough lane to make that turn
I hit that ditch and woke up lookin' at
What used to be a firebird
That made a believer outta me
I had to learn the hard way
Scared to death is more convincing
Than to hear my old man preaching
Free advice just don't sink in
Like broken bones and bruises
A hard head and highway twenty three
Made a believer outta me
I can still hear the old man say
If you get a good woman don't let her get away
Hold her love her be that shoulder
The one that she deserves
Just enough pride and just enough nerve
Just enough time I didn't learn
She's gone moved on
Now I'm left with the ashes of a fire burn
That made a believer outta me
I had to learn the hard way
Missing her was more convincing
Than to hear my old man preaching
Free advice just don't sink in
But a broken heart will do it
I didn't know how hard it'd be till she
Made a believer outta me
Never thought the way
I was living was something that could be forgiven
Till one July Sunday morning
I started feeling something
I saw that cross and heard the story
About how a carpenter died on it for me
That made a believer outta me
I had to learn the hard way
Ain't nothing more convincing
Than to feel that sweet redemption
Free advice finally sank in
Just like the way that I did
When that muddy water washed me clean
And made a believer outta me
