[00:05.67]Boy meets girl in a flatbed Chevy[00:08.64]Parked on a dead end road[00:11.55]Life is fast and love is heavy[00:14.40]High school sweetheart[00:15.90]Just twenty years old[00:17.31]Gets down on a knee says[00:18.87]I know this ring[00:20.28]Is a little bit cheap[00:22.62]But will you be the measure of a man for me?[00:27.09]We'd been married for two whole years[00:30.30]I woke up on a weekday morning[00:33.21]In a flash it all became so clear[00:36.54]The hourglass was pouring[00:38.82]Out of time and out of reach[00:41.34]If I was gonna go down[00:43.02]I'd go down swinging[00:44.55]I'm talking to you now[00:45.81]'Cause you look just like me[00:47.73]So let me tell you[00:48.75]'Bout the measure of a man[00:50.10][Verse]There's a price[00:56.82]That comes with freedom[00:58.44]We take it as a burden[01:01.17]Sheepdogs they don't pick who needs them[01:04.32]The good ones are good at hurting[01:06.90]And they stay on their feet[01:08.46]And they just keep serving[01:10.14]Just like me[01:12.33]'Cause I was twenty-five[01:14.16]When my daddy died[01:15.87]I woke up on a weekday morning[01:18.78]In a flash it all became so clear[01:22.05]The hourglass was pouring[01:23.94]Out of time and out of reach[01:26.70]If I was gonna go down[01:28.35]I'd go down swinging[01:29.94]I'm talking to you now[01:31.17]'Cause you look just like me[01:33.15]So let me tell you[01:34.11]'Bout the measure of a man[01:35.31][Verse][01:46.65]If I die young[01:47.94]And I might die young[01:49.71]I ain't afraid to die[01:51.06]I've already lived a full life[01:53.22]So put me in the ground[01:54.66]Where the dirt is deep[01:56.70]Let me tell you[01:57.54]About the measure of a man[01:59.07]I was twenty-eight[02:00.27]When my baby was born[02:02.52]I woke up on a weekday morning[02:05.43]In a flash it all became so clear[02:09.48]The hourglass was pouring[02:11.04]Out of time and out of reach[02:13.53]If I was gonna go down[02:15.21]I'd go down swinging[02:16.77]I'm talking to you now[02:18.00]'Cause you look just like me[02:19.95]So let me tell you[02:20.94]'Bout the measure of a man