Renegades - Mike Mains & The Branches

Thought we were bulletproof

Smoking your older brother’s cigarettes

Just two country boys

Man, we never should have pulled into that driveway

But I still hear the blackbirds

Singing in the branches above

I see the smoke

Rising out of my father’s gun

I smelled the fear in your heart

When you left me alone

On Kelly Road, singing

All that I want is to be young again

Father, forgive me for all my sins

I used to fantasize

Cracking his skull open wide

I’d paint the walls with his blood

Oh, how he’d scream

I wish you never would have pulled into that driveway

But I think I just saw

The devil in my old man’s eyes

Like a demon he cries

«It's time to get inside»

Guess that explains the bruises

You see from time to time

All that I want is to be young again

Father, forgive me for all my sins

All that I want is to be young again

Oh, we were renegades

Renegades, renegades

We had gasoline for blood

We’re all just kids in our parents' clothes

Holding each other, half-drunk, trying to figure it out

We’re all just kids in our parents' clothes

On our knees, singing, «Jesus, won’t you carry me»

Brother, you’re all I’ll ever need

For you, I’d let them tear the flesh right off of these

White bones if it’s what you needed

What you needed

What you needed

Oh

What you needed

Oh

All that I want is to be young again

Father, forgive me for all my sins

All that I want is to be young again

Oh, we were renegades

Renegades, renegades

We had gasoline for blood

Oh

Thought we were bulletproof