Indiana by Cody Miles Lyrics

VERSE 1
When you were born
I began to race time;
Generations of mistakes
And I’m trying to erase mine;
Only God takes a crooked branch
And makes a straight line;
But these late nights make certain
You won’t face the canines;
Your felt needs in excelsis;
Phone full of selfies;
I feel the Fathers love:
My son;
With whom I am well pleased;
I want the hard issues
To start to build the scar tissue;
Cause when you leave this room
You’re gonna take my heart with you;

CHORUS
There’s a million things that I want to say
Somehow I’m speechless when I see your face;
VERSE 2
Let’s start with your last name;
Your dad was a bastard;
And this is important;
Because Your last name was Thornton;
But from here ever after;
And this wasn’t easy;
Your children will be named
After your CiCi;
And I can’t sandbag your granddad
There was no land grab;
He grew up on dirt floors
In Mississippi and hurt more
And his cursed storm was epic;
He’d find the love he searched for
Before he left it
His first born and his second;
But check it
We went from barefeet
To 3,000 square feet
You can’t carry this past
Because it’s buried;
Your mother and I broke the chain
And handmade
Something great from a bastards last name;
And your namesake;
Is not a state or a dog
It’s a blank slate
Whether you stray, or you fall
Or you placate;
I’ll be here through it all;
Every day break and every playscape;
I pray to my God
Every may day and heyday
We greater the odds
I won’t vacate;
The same fate won’t play here at all;
Nothing can separate;
And nothing you can do
Can stop me from loving you;