I'm gonna get out alive, gonna get out alive, gonna get out alive with you
Just as long as you get out alive of what you're going through
I'm gonna get out alive, gonna get out alive, gonna get out alive with you
Just as long as you get out alive of what you're going through

I remember being 12 years old
Growing up is good as gold
And I stopped seeing you around
You were getting high and falling down
I remember being young on the flats, dreamed of leaving and never come back
I looked to you like you'd never die, because you were tougher than the pines

I'm gonna get out alive, gonna get out alive, gonna get out alive with you
Just as long as you get out alive of what you're going through
I'm gonna get out alive, gonna get out alive, gonna get out alive with you
Just as long as you get out alive of what you're going through

We were barefoot in those hills
We played war and I got killed
Then we'd laugh out in the grass
Too damn young to ruin our past

And I left town for a long while
Came back down and walked a gravel mile
Just to see how you were doing, trees were burned and the flats were ruined

I'm gonna get out alive, gonna get out alive, gonna get out alive with you
Just as long as you get out alive of what you're going through
I'm gonna get out alive, gonna get out alive, gonna get out alive with you
Just as long as you get out alive of what you're going through

You were crying in the driveway, telling me you'd gone the wrong way
That this life had cut you down and you were glad I was back in town
You were crying in the driveway, telling me you'd gone the wrong way
That this life had cut you down and you were glad I was back in town

I'm gonna get out alive, gonna get out alive, gonna get out alive with you
Just as long as you get out alive of what you're going through
I'm gonna get out alive, gonna get out alive, gonna get out alive with you
Just as long as you get out alive of what you're going through